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Originally Posted by kacir
We are used to flat screens, but most pieces of paper we read from aren't flat.
The vast majority of paper books I have read had pages curved. If you open any paperback, at least one side of the spread is curved. You would have to break the spine to have perfectly flat page in paperback or the vast majority of hardbacks.
I know that I am playing the devils advocate here.
Consider this. The device is bendable, so it would be well suited to carrying in the pocket and so it would be resistant to damage by bending. If the device is bendable, it will never be perfectly straight. The only way to prevent random buckling, while you keep the device bendable is to put it in permanent curve. Just grab a single printed page and observe yourself how you hold it.
I do realize that it is highly unusual, but I would give it a try. But not for 230Euro ;-)
EDIT: do you remember "good old" CRT monitors we have been happily using for decades? Most of them were curved in two axes. Just look left at my avatar ;-)
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True, we do read a lot of things not straight like pBooks and newspapers. It's just odd to have a screen that is curved. But I do think the price is a tad high. $287 US (converted from 230 euros) is too expensive for a 6" reader these days.