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DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx) (hackaday.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

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.

There are also some folding phones now with largish screens. A buddy of mine has one and it's nice. Too expensive for me though, and it's more Android.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah most 7" readers have the page turning buttons on the side which usually makes the device too wide for pockets.

    The 6" readers fit my pocket quite well... So a foldable dual screen 6" sound like a pretty nice upgrade.

    Most of what I use my readers for are reflowable text like epubs... But I guess if you could show a single page from a PDF across both screens then it might actually be big enough to be able to read while still being pocketable... You would probably want to go with the high resolution e-ink screens, like the one in the Kobo Clara HD (1072 x 1448). A combined resolution of two of those would be 2144 x 1448,

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Being able to fold down a larger "sheet" display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I'm kind of over all-in-one devices. They've turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.

    Obviously that's not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I'd want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I just upgraded to a foldable phone and it's a game changer to have an 8in screen in your pocket. Reading long form content is so much more enjoyable, and I'd love to have an E-ink reader that folds like my phone does.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    My buddy's folding Samsung phone is really cool and you might look into it. It unfolds to a single screen of maybe 10" diagonal and square perspective. I think for full page PDFs though, I need something bigger so I've given up on pocketability.

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