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Looks really nice. How much do you want for one? Surely not more than twice as much as the competition needs. /s
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Submitted 1 month ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’ll wait until they make one with 300 screens I can flip like a book.
errer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And each screen has infinite battery life! Oh and each is as flexible and light as I dunno, a sheet of paper maybe!
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I want VR recreations of famous libraries with full on books you can take off the shelves to read and homeless people washing their feet in the bathroom sinks
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
pair of 648×480 e-paper displays
Um lol no. I could see using a pair of Inkplate 10’s connected by (at least metaphorical)) duct tape. Doesn’t seem worth mucking with special hardware.
Every affordable e-reader I know of is simply too small though. I mostly want to read stuff like ArXiV preprints (A4 sized pdf’s) so would want at least a 13" screen. Someone a few days ago posted a link to a 14" Android tablet with a semi-reflective display at around $300. It seemed interesting but I’d rather degoogle.
There are some hinged Waveshare displays that look nice but they are regular TFT displays so wouldn’t be great for a portable e-reader with long battery time.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
I hope you get what you want. Me I want something I could put in my pocket.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The small kobo kinda fits in a jean pocket, easily in cargo shorts or inside jacket pocket. Only comfortable for reading novels though. I prefer a little bigger even if it isnt pocket size.
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Oh hmm, I just use my phone for that. It doesn’t seem worth having an additional, limited purpose device. I assume a 7" e-reader is too big for a pocket.
The Inkplate 10 isn’t pocketable but it’s very light, easy to put in your backpack or whatever. I just wish they had a 13" version. The 13" Ipad Air is really very nice if you don’t mind Apple products.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Hello there, just scrolling through and I saw your comment. You seem to know a bit about this topic. I’m currently thinking of buying a reader as I lost mine some time ago. I used a kobo and a kindle in the past and didn’t see much difference. However, this thing about reading papers seems really cool. I have tried in the past reading PDFs on those readers without much success.
Do you think you have good options for reading articles/manuals? Consider I end up printing about 50 pages a day in articles I read. If I can turn that into something digital that’d be cool.
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
If an 8-inch screen is enough for you, then I recommend either the Pocketbook Inkpad 4, or the Pocketbook Color 3 if you want color. They run Linux and have a very capable PDF Reader (especially compared to Kindles)
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’m still looking for a good answer myself! There are lots of possibilities but all have drawbacks from my perspective. I guess the 13" Onyx Boox sounds nice if you don’t mind the cost. I haven’t tried it though. Same with the 14" TCL Android tablet if you don’t mind Android.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Give PineTab a look. Pine64 makes open source hardware that is pretty cool.
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This? pine64.org/devices/pinetab/
It’s just 10" and looks like an old design. Micro USB, oops. The Inkplate is 10" ESP32 epaper so it uses very little power. Alternatively there are tablet-style x86 laptops and I almost bought one last year. Now the price is way up due to DRAM shortages and so on, oops. I have some scrounged HDMI monitors so I want to try using one in portrait mode with my raspberry pi 400. If that works I could see getting one of the Waveshare dual screen monitors and maybe a Pi 500+.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
You probably mean the PineNote, the 10 inch rink tablet. Pinetab is a normal tablet with a lcd screen.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
EInk gets expensive fast as the size gets bigger. At 10” its hard not to just use an lcd and bigger battery.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t like the fact that it folds. It’s unnecessary and makes it thicker and heavier.
SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 1 month ago
I like the concept. I have a e-ink reader where I removed the hull because it's annoying, but at some point I must have damaged the display a bit and now it has a little black spot. With this the added bulk also doubles the area available for text. Maybe not that useful for novels that you read through linearly, but for non-fiction it would be nice to see other chapters, glossaries, etc. on one display while keeping the other at the page you were reading. Mainly a problem of software and enough buttons to be able to comfortably use that.
Though the low-res displays of this prototype look atrocious to me (pixelation and uneven blackness), maybe a later version will improve on that.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
How else would it recreate a book unless it had a folding display which would be even worse?
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Books 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
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Go old school and have it recreate a scroll. Really, not having to shift your head/eyes when reading is a plus with r-readers.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nevermind the fact most readers and tablets come -with- a cover … So its almost like a book anyway. Which people fold behind the page. Like a book. What was that extra screen doing again?
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not a big fan of having 2 screens.
A huge fan of ESP32 DIY E-Reader!
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great. Now i can get that “real book feeling” of wrestling the books pages to lie flat enough for me to read them as I lay down.
Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Why not hundreds of screens so you can present all pages of a book at the same time and you just skip through the screen? Would be so much more convenient and innovative!
bampop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d get a whole bunch of these and keep a different book on each one, so you could just pick it up and read it. But it’ll never work, it’s too much trouble to keep them all charged.
Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
That’s very smart!
I think I see a business opportunity here. One could Design covers for each device so that you can identify them easily when they are standing next to each other. I bet these can be placed a lot a similar price as phone shells. If only we could find a solution to the charging problem.
markko@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only reason I’d want 2 “pages” is so I could close it to protect the screen(s)… but that’s exactly what covers are for.
Apart from the tiny minority of people who might prefer the form factor/“book feel”, are there any actual advantages to having 2 screens for general reading?
yobasari@feddit.org 1 month ago
Could also be useful for doing research with ebooks. Maybe show a list of bookmarks or the table of contents on one screen and the text on the other screen. Or you could compare different texts easier, showing one on one screen and one on the other. Or use one screen for notes. But I guess people that need to actually do productive research will use a desktop anyways.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yes! This exactly. I’m learning Italian and having a dictionary open on one side would be awesome.
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s probably just for the people who want it. I have thought about how much nicer two pages would be in the past for this reason and for displaying sheet music.
markko@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I did consider less common uses like that, which is why I specified “general reading”. I prefer paper for my sheet music, but I’d choose something with a faster refresh rate than e-ink if I had to use something with a screen anyway.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I would like to be able to get comics and manga in ebook form. I’ve always had to go with the print versions because two-page spreads end up looking bad/being more confusing to read on my ereader thanks to the single page display.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It would probably work really well for graphic novels, since they do occasionally have panels or illustrations that span both pages.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Look. Hackaday… If it’s a slow week… We get it. Take a day off. We still like you. Just… Less of this please.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Waste of energy.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I read for hours on my tablet just fine. I don’t even see the need for e-ink displays, let alone this form factor. Also, I find the tablet easier to hold for hours, compared to a book.
In spite of all that, I kind of want one, I’ll admit. I have a 3D printer, maybe I’ll make one.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
E-paper is easier to use outside or in bright light, and the battery tends to last longer. Anecdotally, it also doesn’t hurt my eyes as much.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 month ago
And by “tending to last longer” it is good to note that it almost always lasts 5x-10x longer, as in you only need to charge it once a month instead of every few days with medium reading, depending on backlight usage.
When I only read a few pages a day because of my schedule, my battery lasts over 6 months easily. Meanwhile my unused iPad has to be charged every week or so even if it is used 0 minutes.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’ve tried. I really don’t want to have another “gadget” in my carbon footprint, but can’t avoid it. I’ve read in my tablet, it’s just too heavy. So, it’s gonna be a PC, a laptop, a tablet, a cellphone, and an eBook reader -_-
The only good side is I use them way more, I think, than your average person. The PC is almost ten years old, the laptop is like six yo, my cellphone is getting to 4 years of use, but the tablet is only a couple of years old and it was supposed to serve as a reader. Also, if I use my tablet just to read, it’s a waste of energy; eink devices are typically very efficient.
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’m just here to point out that the fact you genuinely care about your carbon footprint probably puts you ahead of 80% of the population, and the fact that it has materially affected your device choices probably puts you ahead of 80% of the remainder.
There’s definitely a unique satisfaction that comes from filling tech needs with hardware that already exists, and which does a great job at it too.
That goes across hobbies and mediums too. I just finished a big outdoor carpentry project where I was able to find perfect long-term uses for pieces of wood from The Initial Build in the construction of The New Hotness.
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Why DIDN’T Amazon do that for the Kindle?
aizawaA02@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Just I am waiting for Amazon to one day create something like Boox Palma 1/2 but that makes too much sense to give us something we can put in our pocket. I don’t know why they lack innovation. One day though…
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great idea. Less having to turn pages.
rossman@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
oo we can bring back 2 page spreads, probably 2x price though.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
looks like shit no thanks
natecox@programming.dev 1 month ago
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Welcome to modern astroturfing in the social media age.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
There is a build page on the github for the device.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 month ago
There’s no such link. Can’t even find one through Google
batman0730@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is there? Mind sharing the link?
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I posted this as a comment on the creator’s post. Will have to see if they respond.