Dual e-ink screen ereader

[J. Strnad]

Originally Posted by astra

I think I could associate myself with this type of thinking to a certain degree. Reading is mostly what we read but it is a process too. It is not only an input of raw info. Why do people like to read a book curling up in an armchair next to a fireplace with a glass of wine?

Most likely I would not go for 2 pages ebook reader but I do appreciate a form factor of ebook reader I own. It must remind me of a real book, instead of yelling at my face I AM a GADGET! That's why Kindle was never an option for me with its h/w keyboard or Nook with a secondary LCD screen.

I agree. That's why I love the Kobo...it's minimalist.

No interest at all in a two-screen reader. That's like making a vehicle that walks because it's more like riding a horse.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by TheJohnNewton

One other thought on taking advantage of the two screens, have the ability to fold it open flat and use it as one big screen for large maps or graphics.

That would be excellent

[Logseman]

Originally Posted by church mouse

It seems to me that this added flexibility would only only come once the two page reader had already established itself - who is going to develop product specifically for a two page reader before the reader has already established its presence?

My belief was that a two page reader would be unattractive to the bulk market looking for a book reader, but it would seem from many of the postings here that I was wrong.

I'd daresay this will have to be introduced to universities and other research leading institutions. However, unlike normal literature, of which we have millions of books in the public domain and thus a demand, even if small, for readers which can read these PD books, most scientific research and of course the most recent and valuable one is inaccesible to the common man, ad maiorem Copyrighti gratia. Thus, they'll have to figure the business model and until they do that we're positively screwed.

[Dulin's Books]

years ago there was a design I liked for a two page ereader. it came out of a kind of eink design contest . it was two pages one on top of the other connected by a hinge. you flipped the top page around behind to turn pages. Adding a swivel to this allowed you to see two pages side by side or close it up as a clamshell/ book.

ill see if i can find the pictures. this was like 5 years ago or more.

[Dulin's Books]

haha that took both more and less time than i figured it would. my first few attempts turned up nothing, and i was starting to settle in for a long slog through search results. then i had an epiphany moment, changed the way i was searching and boom

It wasn't an EInk contest it was a Plastic Logic design contest.

http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/6619.html

The one I was thinking about was this one





It didnt have the swivel of my memory that would allow the top display to turn around and face the other way. must have been my addition.

Interesting the med band. I designed the same thing a few years ago and included an RFID chip with a system to track patients around the hospital. I wonder if I was inspired by this one since I must have seen it before drawing up my own design.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

haha that took both more and less time than i figured it would. my first few attempts turned up nothing, and i was starting to settle in for a long slog through search results. then i had an epiphany moment, changed the way i was searching and boom

It wasn't an EInk contest it was a Plastic Logic design contest.

http://www.dexigner.com/design_news/6619.html

The one I was thinking abotu was this one





It didnt have the swivel of my memory that would allow the top display to turn around and face the other way. must have been my addition.

Interesting the med band. I designed the same thing a few years ago and included an RFID chip with a system to track patients around the hospital. I wonder if I was inspired by this one since I must have seen it before drawing up my own design.

suhhhweeet!!!! red x's!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

suhhhweeet!!!! red x's!

Yeah, pretty red x's.

[Dulin's Books]

well here it is.

[astra]

For some reason a spine of The Winner - Turnover reminds me of a good grip rods that would be on machines for hospital patients going through rehabilitation period doing physical exercises

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by astra

For some reason a spine of The Winner - Turnover reminds me of a good grip rods that would be on machines for hospital patients going through rehabilitation period doing physical exercises

there you go, another reading device that can double up as something else ....

(wasn't the iPad a replacement for dumbells ? )

[Lo Zeno]

Originally Posted by Falcao

Thanks for the post, it looks cool! What's next? An ereader with paper odor? I can imagine the commercial: "now with odor to 12th century parchment."

Then they'll make ereaders with "the same tactile feel as your old Hardcover books!"

Then they'll make ereaders "as think as the real book!"

Then They'll knock at your door, show you a paper book, and say "...and the latest ereader doesn't even need batteries!"

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

...(wasn't the iPad a replacement for dumbells ? )

Don't be givin' me straight lines...

[GeoffC]

is that not the anti-string theory ?

[James_Wilde]

Supercoooool!

[James_Wilde]

Originally Posted by SkyDream

I do like the one-hand reading experience with todays ereaders.

My experience (with an Iriver Story) is that you need two hands to hold it since it's so heavy. Or rather, that one has to change hands far more often with it than one does with, say, a paperback. I assume the Story is not significantly lighter or heavier than other ereaders. There's no really comfortable way to hold an ereader.