Thread: Wouldn't a page-turn remote be nice?
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Old 04-13-2017, 01:45 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
I don't see the point myself. [..] I mean come on we can fit several thousand books onto a little 8 ounce device do we have to be too lazy to turn the page by hand? Paper books had their pages turned by hand for several hundred years and turning the pages of an ebook by hand helps the device to vanish as we read the stories we have on our devices.
You don't see the point _for you_. Please don't call people with disabilities who want assistive tech "lazy". It's rude and ignorant.

Yes, paper books are heavy and need to be turned by hand. This is an access barrier.
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