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Originally Posted by guitu
New hand stick Bluetooth for turning page!
What do you think of this? I wish I could buy an accessory to turn the page without touching the Kindle, sometimes I need to cross my arms, but I can't turn the page if I don't move 
Do you think it is easy to build such a device? |
I think it's a terrible idea if held separately. I'd rather have buttons on the frame. It would have to clip onto the ereader.
It won't work on my PW3 as it has no Bluetooth.
My phones and tablets have volume buttons that work.
My Sony PRS-350 and Kobo Libra already have page turn buttons. So do my older Kindles, but I don't read on them, only test.
So I'd only use it on my Boyue Likebook Mars as it as Bluetooth and Android, but it has very little frame.
Such a device is trivial for a company that makes gadgets. It's a little harder a home mainly due to size and packaging.
Another issue it that on eink based readers it has a bad effect on battery life, apart from the fact that you need Bluetooth and some ereaders or applications on them don't respond to any code or command to turn page. BT is on the PW4 to support Speech as an alternative to a generic USB audio stick on a PW3 via an adaptor. The Audio/Speech on PW3 & PW4 is for accessibility, it's actually MORE awkward than the TTS on Kindle DXG, which is just for reading out the text.
My Mars has Android so I installed KOreader without jailbreak. I use it for real ebooks as the stock reader on the Mars is better than KOreader for scanned image content PDFs. KOreader works with Android BT external thing to change page, though not easy to set up as by default it wants volume buttons. The stock reader and the local County library Android app (Borrowbox by Belinda, and web download to PC can use ADE) don't use any android keypress, nor the volume keys on my Android phone or tablet.
Android apps on the Mars – that work – such as K9 email, browser, Jota note/text edit etc all work with external Bluetooth gadgets, even full keyboard and mouse.
You can buy a cheap BT camera "shutter" or a cheap BT headset (not buds) with media control buttons. If you can work your reading app on your tablet or eink ereader with either of those then building your own will work.
Mostly a BT page turner won't work, which is why people have jailbroken and hacked devices and in the case where there is no BT they use WiFi which is even worse for battery life.
It's simpler to buy a Kobo Libra. It's my favourite ereader for well formatted ebooks. The Mars is FAR better for books that are scanned PDFs (still to small for PDF magazines and A4 / Letter manuals) or badly formatted ones using KOreader to override rather than fixing in Calibre, or Borrow Box for the library books as it's too much bother to read them other than in the special App (ADE DRM).