• @bloup@lemmy.sdf.org
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    010 days ago

    I never understood why nobody made an E reader that you could read “like a book” that just had two screens and a hinge

    • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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      09 days ago

      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.

    • @JayGray91@lemmy.zip
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      010 days ago

      Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.

    • @BK85@lemmy.world
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      010 days ago

      Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?

        • @espentan@lemmy.world
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          010 days ago

          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.

          • WFH
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            10 days ago

            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.

            • lime!
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              010 days ago

              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.

      • @bloup@lemmy.sdf.org
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        09 days ago

        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