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Originally Posted by murg
I'd like to see an inertia sensor chip in an ereader.
That way, you just have to shake (flip?) the device to change the page.
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I know you are just joking, but this is exactly how FBReader180 worked on PocketBook 360°.
They used G-sensor that was supposed to flip screen 90° the way modern smartphones do. Third-party FBReader did not rotate screen 90° but turned page when you tilted the reader. Hence the name FBReader180. The tilt angle was configurable.
I used the program because of large number of other features.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
For me the ultimate would be a front facing camera interface. Wink to turn the page. Long wink to page backward. No need to move a finger. Too bad that it would kill the battery.  |
Well, I do remember Samsung Galaxy S III having a feature when it scanned the movement of your eyes from left to right as you read the line and scrolled the text.
So the idea isn't *that* far-fetched.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've had reading devices with autoscroll in the past. It just doesn't work well for me personally; when I read I frequently stop and re-start, go back and re-read a previous paragraph, and so on. I don't read at a constant speed.
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The devices that have TTS [Text To Speech] do automatic pageturns following the text. All you had to do is leave the earphones unplugged.
I have e-ink reader with TTS, but I only ever tried this feature when I was making a review.