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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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[–] 16 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

I don't like the fact that it has two displays. It's unnecessary and makes it thicker and heavier.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    How else would it recreate a book unless it had a folding display which would be even worse?

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

    Books are made like this because it's impossible to make them any other way, but a digital device can have just one "page" since you read one page at time like Kindles and Kobos

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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