Buttons are not an eBook navigation method - Page 2

ahi · 08-31-2009, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Hellmark

Thinkpads still come with trackpoints, although they are often blue anymore.

Thank you for the delightful linguistic curiousity. I have never seen one of these in the wild before!

- Ahi

Hellmark · 08-31-2009, 05:59 PM

Oh, I'm a fan of thinkpads, because they're tanks that take a lot of abuse, and prefer trackpoints (nipplemouse, clitpointer, what ever you prefer to call them) to trackpads, so I'm always on the look out for them.

ahi · 08-31-2009, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hellmark

Oh, I'm a fan of thinkpads, because they're tanks that take a lot of abuse, and prefer trackpoints (nipplemouse, clitpointer, what ever you prefer to call them) to trackpads, so I'm always on the look out for them.

He he.

I was actually referring to the way you used anymore.

But it's all good!

- Ahi

Hellmark · 08-31-2009, 06:10 PM

Eh, I referred them as the official name the first time, just to not have any confusion, but I tend to call them nipplemice.

Lemurion · 08-31-2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by evenstr

On a slightly different note...is there any reason for no dual-screen ebook reader--something that would open and close like a book and facilitate the two-pages-at-a-time format so many of us are used to. My apologies of this is too off-topic or if it has been answered before.

Price: the screen is the single most expensive component of an E-Ink reader.

Hellmark · 08-31-2009, 06:33 PM

Manufacturer cost of a 6" display is in the $90 range. The prices on the 5" ones are really not too much different. So, for ones that are now in the $200 price level, it is just a bit under half the expense.

griffonwing · 08-31-2009, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evenstr

On a slightly different note...is there any reason for no dual-screen ebook reader--something that would open and close like a book and facilitate the two-pages-at-a-time format so many of us are used to. My apologies of this is too off-topic or if it has been answered before.

Some would say power consumption, but instead of 1 screen and 8000 pages, you're getting 2 screens and 4000 changes. Same difference.

But thinking about it, hinged lids, more wiring, more R&D. You'd be paying more for device that has a greater chance for something to malfunction. This for the ability to read 2 pages at once. When really, you can only read one page at a time anyway.

The only thing this would allow would be for comics/magazines with a 2-page spread.

Hellmark · 08-31-2009, 09:20 PM

The only time it would be handy, is multi page layouts, but, that kinda would get ruined by the gap in the middle.

CleverClothe · 08-31-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Of all the devices I've owned, my personal favourite as far as page turning went was the "rocker bar" of the iLiad.

Agreed. I could rock all night.

There must be button/rocker navigation available. Touch doesn't cut it on the bus.

DawnFalcon · 08-31-2009, 10:00 PM

Surely the 2-page thing is the point of the PRS-2121, in landscape mode?

pking36330 · 08-31-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Abecedary

One of the iPhone apps uses the accelerometer to scroll the text by tilting, although it seems more gimmicky than useful (unless you're reading one-handed while hanging from a strap on a bus or subway).

BOb, some of the buses I've been on would have be making uncommanded page changes if the lateral accelerometer controls the page flip. Taxis too.

Sonist · 08-31-2009, 10:07 PM

If my rosy memories are correct, I liked Sony's buttons better than the Kindle's, and liked the touch swipe on the 700.

But, I am fully expecting Apple to introduce an eye tracking sensor in the new iPad, which will turn the page as one's eyes look at the lower right of the screen.

Abecedary · 08-31-2009, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonist

But, I am fully expecting Apple to introduce an eye tracking sensor in the new iPad, which will turn the page as one's eyes look at the lower right of the screen.

I want voice-activated page turning. Nothing better than getting to say "next page" every 45 seconds or so on the subway.

ahi · 09-01-2009, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Abecedary

I want voice-activated page turning. Nothing better than getting to say "next page" every 45 seconds or so on the subway.

I'd prefer to have my page-turning keyphrase be:

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot!" That, or "Commence now, Thou false mechanical beast!"

Especially on the subway!

- Ahi

mollybo · 09-01-2009, 12:53 AM

I read a book - can't quite remember which one, it was cyberpunk - in which the protagonist put a password on the (spoken) command "shutdown" on his main computing device. Seems during the last few days of the semester while people were trying to finish papers pranksters would run around the library yelling, "Shutdown! Shutdown!" causing people's devices to turn off, losing work. I won't go into more, because I think it was a major plot point.

Though one wonders why devices so advanced aren't set to auto-save every nanosecond or so, preventing data loss.

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08-31-2009, 05:59 PM	#17
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	Oh, I'm a fan of thinkpads, because they're tanks that take a lot of abuse, and prefer trackpoints (nipplemouse, clitpointer, what ever you prefer to call them) to trackpads, so I'm always on the look out for them.

08-31-2009, 06:10 PM	#19
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	Eh, I referred them as the official name the first time, just to not have any confusion, but I tend to call them nipplemice.

08-31-2009, 06:33 PM	#21
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	Manufacturer cost of a 6" display is in the $90 range. The prices on the 5" ones are really not too much different. So, for ones that are now in the $200 price level, it is just a bit under half the expense.

08-31-2009, 09:20 PM	#23
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	The only time it would be handy, is multi page layouts, but, that kinda would get ruined by the gap in the middle.

08-31-2009, 10:00 PM	#25
DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Surely the 2-page thing is the point of the PRS-2121, in landscape mode?

08-31-2009, 10:07 PM	#27
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	If my rosy memories are correct, I liked Sony's buttons better than the Kindle's, and liked the touch swipe on the 700. But, I am fully expecting Apple to introduce an eye tracking sensor in the new iPad, which will turn the page as one's eyes look at the lower right of the screen.

09-01-2009, 12:53 AM	#30
mollybo Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 2896 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Rocket eBook, Gemstar, and Kindle 3	I read a book - can't quite remember which one, it was cyberpunk - in which the protagonist put a password on the (spoken) command "shutdown" on his main computing device. Seems during the last few days of the semester while people were trying to finish papers pranksters would run around the library yelling, "Shutdown! Shutdown!" causing people's devices to turn off, losing work. I won't go into more, because I think it was a major plot point. Though one wonders why devices so advanced aren't set to auto-save every nanosecond or so, preventing data loss.