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Originally Posted by junkyardwillie
Am I the only one that thinks a dual screen is a bit dumb? The cool thing about an ebook reader is that its just one piece. Why add a second screen, not sure why you would need that as you can't read two pages at a time unless you have some really cool speed reading technique where you split your reading between your left and right eyes. All that adds is extra weight and the battery will drain twice as fast. It will be uncomfortable to hold as you can't hold it with one hand at that point so it takes the worst feature of having a book and adds it to an electronic device
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I suppose you could make the second screen a touchscreen. Here are a few uses I thought about.
Keyboard - Lay it up like a laptop, and have the touchscreen show a keyboard layout. This will allow you to easily edit your books, or even to write your own, and save them to the SD card or internal memory.
Notes - One the left side is the school textbook. The right touchscreen will have handwriting recognition and allow you to take notes during class. When you change the left screen to a new page, it saves the handwritten/converted text and creates a new blank page for you to start a new set of notes on. This way, a book with 120 pages will have a matching 120 pages of possible notes.
Menus - The right touchscreen will have easily-accessible menus so that you can quickly change folders, view-settings, font size, font type, without having to leave the book you are reading. This layout could be customized. It will also allow you to have a list of bookmarked links along one edge. This will allow you to quickly bookmark any number of pages and jump back and forth between them, possibly between several books.
Can you imagine how much simple D&D gaming would be? 10 bookmarks, for example, which allow you to quickly jump from your adventure notes, to a Monster Manual entry, to the DMG treasure table, to the PH Spell list, etc.. Making a DMs job much easier than having pbooks!