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Old 09-28-2007, 03:49 AM   #31
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Tunable delay

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Originally Posted by Hadrien View Post
While reading a book, there's 2 different status for the device, if you're turning pages pretty fast, the device stays completely on (and you can browse through your book really fast). If you're actually reading and not turning pages, the device use a sleep mode while waiting for the next input.
I read many times about the delay in page turning on many eInk devices, and the consequent frustration.

The Gen3 method you described seems wonderful, but I think could be easily optimized in a simple software way: allow the user to tune the time after which the system goes in sleep mode:
in this way, depending on how fast you read (e.g. 1'/page), you can set the threshold slightly above that time (e.g. 1'30''), and you are able to let it sink in sleep mode in a proper way while at the same time enjoying reading AND fast page turning...

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