For some people, recreating the form factor of a book is the point, regardless of its convenience or cost. I’m sure whoever put this thing together was quite aware of how mainstream e-readers are built and didn’t want that, or they would have bought a Kindle or a Kobo.
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tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 16 hours agoBooks are made like this because it’s impossible to make any other way, but a digital device can have just one “page” since you read one page at time like Kindles and Kobos
nyan@lemmy.cafe 14 hours ago
Zink@programming.dev 9 hours ago
I can imagine a future device with an e-ink page that’s so thin and flexible that it looks and feels like a paper book with magic changing text. I don’t know how many consumers would pay a premium for that, but I would definitely buy my wife one.
bluGill@fedia.io 11 hours ago
The other option is a scroll. historicaly I'm told a book was always a scroll and the factor we now call a book was a codex. (I don't know how to verify this)