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For reading regular books it would be more of a novelty item IMO. We can read double paged or have more than one book open at once on a tablet, or display more than two pages on larger screen devices, and possibly many prefer that.
There is a large crowd of people who hate an extra page turn every 20 or so pages who might be attracted, but would they want to pay extra?
It would be a quite bit heavier if you needed a casing for both sides, although maybe it could just clip together like a change purse so you might not need a case, but still a bit more cumbersome to hold if your hands are small or weak.
The hinged part might be easier to break.
Still in one sense the tech is already there to make such a device cheap enough. Take two 5 inch devices currently selling for $40 when on sale, program them to communicate wirelessly with each other to turn pages at the same time and voila, there it is.
Of course the problem seems to be in programming end with these ereaders. but I am sure there are many programmers who could do it.
The wish for a double paged device was mentioned by medard recently in the Future Sony thread.
Helen
Helen
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