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I can read comfortably on my phone (a Nexus 5) for 15 or 20 minutes. Then I have to take a break or I won't be able to do a lot of reading for a few hours. It doesn't have to be a long break but if I don't wait several minutes between sessions I have problems.
This isn't at all the same as reading web pages on my computer. I'm a retired programmer and I spent decades staring into a computer screen all day long and it rarely bothered me. But I could never read a book on a computer screen more than a little at a time. The difference is that when programming or web browsing I'm not just staring into the screen. I'm always looking away, taking short breaks of 5 seconds or 30 seconds or even a few minutes, as I work. When I'm reading I'm gazing steadily into the screen.
I do read a lot on my phone. It's fine if I keep the sessions short. It's great for when I'm out and about with a few minutes here and there to enjoy my book. But I mostly read on e-ink.
I do have some tablets and I've tried reading on them. I've tried reading modes and reverse text and all of that helps but my sessions still have to be fairly short.
As for the question of e-ink cases for our phones, I'd love that and, even being retired and under the poverty level, I'd save and buy one if it was available. But I doubt it'll happen for most of us. There are a lot of problems. Low demand was already mentioned. Most people won't be interested so that would increase the price and make a lot more people less interested.
Another, probably killer problem is that there are so many phones and the few of us who would buy one probably have a lot of different phones and that means a lot of different models and designs for the cases. That's unlikely to happen.
A better solution would be a small, unattached e-ink screen that can work with any Android or IOS phone using an app. But still, that would be expensive and the market would probably be small.
My guess is that I'll have to just keep on reading bits here and there on my phone and do my longer reading sessions on my Kindle.
By the way, I was over at the community area this morning at the retirement home where I live, reading a bit now and then with my phone. Probably no session was more than 5 minutes but my guess is I read 30 or 40 pages of my current book. My eyes feel fine and I got a fair amount of reading in. This isn't a terrible situation.
Barry
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