Can we just get a thin tablet like e reader with small bevels that can run any normal OS? Android or Linux? Ik they are some but they are mostly Chinese with proprietary hardware and software…
Onyx Boox runs android
No custom roms
How would american with proprietary chinese hardware and software change anything for you?
I like to have control over my computing platforms? And I don’t like to have my shit break when they completely abandon the platform a couple months down the road? That’s why I want FOSS solutions.
Capitalism really doesn’t allow for FOSS hardware
reaches the 200,001th bend
snap
Damnit!
Can I play DOOM on it?
You can read it!
DOOM choose your own adventure style e-book?
That would be so good if they had a competent author.
I would bet it already exists.
The mooInk V includes a reading mode allowing it to be held half-folded like a paperback.
The ereader has a reading mode?? This changes everything!
I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
Thats funny, my lemmy automatically upvotes my own posts but yours aint.
I manually remove the auto upvote:D
I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
I don’t know whether this is sarcasm or not, can’t figure it out. But if isn’t, well, I suppose they won’t.
Reading is usually for oneself and not to show off, so I assume, people who purchase such a thing wouldn’t care about showing off.
I like reading normal books but, I currently prefer devices (I.E screens) because it’s easier to carry around, multiple books possible and less preying eyes “what are you reading”.
It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display books they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.
I buy books for collection purposes and to display them on the shelf for aesthetic reasons but read ebooks on my phone because it’s way more convenient that way. I don’t think it’s really mutually exclusive.
It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))
hey there’s also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere
My eyes are dying already!
Make it smaller
I hear if you fold it 42 times it’s thick enough to reach the moon
Where can I get notified when this is available ? 🤔
Great, a device style I hate with a screen style I hate. I look forward to never owning one.
You know, you don’t have to give voice to every thought that bumbles around in your noggin.
Congrats?
Interesting! I just recently upgraded my old 6" Kindle to a 7" Kobo. I’m very happy about it, and the extra size is nice. If a more portable reader that doesn’t compromise on screen size exists when I’m ready to upgrade next I’m all for it
Man, this thing isn’t eInk but I wish they would scale the costs better on eInk. Even a 4 inch screen is relatively expensive. Once you start getting into 10, 12 or 17 inch eInk screens the pricing is eye-watering… someday…
This is an E Ink screen: “The mooInk V features an 8-inch folding E Ink screen that’s been tested to survive over 200,000 bends.”
OH! I thought this was OLED, like the Samsungs…
I never understood why nobody made an E reader that you could read “like a book” that just had two screens and a hinge
Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?
I read a lot of technical material that has lots of diagrams and it’s difficult with an E reader paging back-and-forth between the text and the diagram that I’m trying to understand
for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality
Two Kindle, one duct tape
but then i’d need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that’s like, effort
not everything has to be optimised for practicality
I see what you did there ;)
True, but this solution also lacks the vibes. It’s directionally correct though!
The hinge lasts longer than a foldy screen.
Apparently a foldable OLED screen is, typically expected to last at least 200.000 folds. That’s more than a 100 folds/day for 5 years. I’d take my chances on one, I think.
5 years isn’t that long
yeah but you’re not folding it 100 times a day. if you’re an avid reader, you’re opening and closing it 10-20 times a day tops.
Unless you go once near a beach and a single grain of sand gets past the airtight bag the phone was in and the Totally-IP67-We-Swear phone chassis and is fucking destroys the screen from the inside, with a repair bill worthy of a new phone because “that kind of damage is not under warranty”.
Source : happened to one of my best friends. Fuck you with a folding dildo, Samsung.
Someone should make a folding dildo.
Second question, if you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have two screens?
If you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have 2 monitors on your computer?
If I were to read a book on my computer, I would use one screen. That’s kinda my point. A second monitor does nothing for me in that scenario.
But it folds like a book, and i see it being held like a book. If that means text populates in two columns like a book, and you read one column at a time, I really don’t see the point of the second side. You can just turn the page.
I mean it’s for the same reasons books aren’t the same size of matchboxes. A larger area makes it easier to read.
I guess this way you can also use it for manga or any other medium that sometimes use both page to display something.
Alright, that’s a good use case, I like that.
While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.
Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.
You would think at least the Chinese brands would try it.
Who asked for this, I don’t expect many people want a pocket able e reader to carry around every day, I carry my shitty old Kindle in my backpack if needed, otherwise I just listen to audio books or read ebooks on my phone
I bought a Kobo Clara hd (6") especially for the reason to be able to carry it around in a pocket so that I can always have it on me
Me* listen, it’s just one of those things you have to try for yourself, when I got my first foldy phone I didn’t get it specifically for reading (I had other more important use cases in mind) but man when I used it for the first time to read a book it was AMAZING to be able to hold it like a book.
Idk maybe I’m weird, but it’s the little things like that lol
*But I want an eink version, but that might be a ways off :(
Yeah, OLED isn’t really the best choice for an e-reader.
There’s a reason e-ink is a thing.
“The mooInk V features an 8-inch folding E Ink screen that’s been tested to survive over 200,000 bends.”
You could at least read the sub heading
Yeah that’s great but I really don’t want OLED on an ereader.
Once again, this isn’t an OLED screen. It is an E Ink screen, like the black and white ones, but with color. And it folds, if you want that.
I get what you’re saying, but still… why did they put an OLED screen on it?
You misread the first sentence.
It isn’t an OLED screen. It’s an E-ink one. I don’t know where you got this idea that it’s an OLED from.
I would buy it. But I’m not into the OLED screen
Close. But what I really want would look like a blank book. The pages would feel like paper. When I down load the material, text appears on the pages and I can flip back and forth. When I’m done I can download another book.
I know it’s niche but that’s what I want.
Can I interest you in a library?
I can’t travel with a library.
I’m the kind of traveler who, after I check in, the first thing I look for is the bookcase where they put all the books that other guests have left. I have to give it to the Germans; they dominate every bookcase I’ve seen.
Haha, fair enough.
I don’t want a folding e-reader, I was a dual eReader with a hinge in the middle that acts like a book.
