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Originally Posted by pata
Your analogy doesn't hold. The publishing world continues to be a hardback-first industry. Books continue to be designed as a two page presentation. While this might not mean much for words-only fiction, it does matter once any form of graphic is introduced to the text e.g graphic novels and textbooks. So while you might consider a single screen/page Kindle your ideal, the world still remains a double page one.
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Browsing through my textbooks, I don't see why 2 pages matter: the referenced tables, and diagrams don't seem to be tied to opposing pages. And as far as electronics textbooks, good software would allow the same functionality as two pages; two pages would really by the same as two screens. If I need 2 pages for a text book, I would much rather have a computer monitor setup.
As far as graphic novels, I don't care.
If that is what graphic novel readers want than that is fine.
I currently have a 10" inch tablet, and I already find it rather large. Going much bigger seems like it would be unwieldy to me. So to me, the advantage of an unfoldable display is portability.
And for reading fiction, I'm going to stick to my 6" eink ereader. I foldable phone would be great, but I don't want the folded footprint to be bigger that my current phone and I would want a full function screen while it was folded. Ideally, I would get a smaller footprint phone.