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    302 months 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

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          82 months 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.

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            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.

            • Cethin
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              42 months ago

              Someone should make a folding dildo.

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              12 months ago

              that’s also a good reason to not have the screen fully close. less danger of stuff getting inside.

            • lime!
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              82 months 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Second question, if you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have two screens?

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              32 months ago

              If you’re going to read from one screen at a time, why have 2 monitors on your computer?

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                12 months ago

                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.

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                  I mean it’s for the same reasons books aren’t the same size as matchboxes. A larger area makes it easier to read.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              I guess this way you can also use it for manga or any other medium that sometimes use both page to display something.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months 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

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      92 months ago

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

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      22 months 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.