My dream Ebook reader

[driesie]

I dream of frameless, uncluttered full-screen eBook text with no visible computer or eBook controls.
In my dream I do not see text displayed on a glaring white background but graphic art at its best: a delicately textured off-white background, the gutter simulated by darker shades of off-white, the edges of the pages fuzzy lines simulating the edges of an open book.
Can you visualize what I see in my dream: how the softly rounded gutter and sloping page edges create the illusion an open 3d eBook?
I do not see ugly plain text on a flat, white computer screen or eBook text squashed into a tight frame of any kind. All I see in my dream is the pages of a real open book waiting to be read.
For my laptop there's an option to view ebooks in single or double page format. The single page display works for my smartphone too and a rounded darker shade of grey around the text creates a 3d effect, it’s as if the single page floats above the screen.
Here too there's nothing to click, not even a single button.
To turn a page I hover the curser for milliseconds in the lower right corner of the display. The text changes and I read on.
To return to a previous page I hover the cursor in the lower left corner of the display and I'm back where I was.
Whenever needed, I hover the cursor in say the top left corner and a narrow vertical panel containing all eBook controls slide out. I select the function I need, things happen, the panel slides back and I'm back where I left my eBook dream world.
The word is out: eBooks are slower to read than paper books.
Everybody needs to sit back and ask a simple question.
Why?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Eboo...ays/1278345706

[GeoffC]

Welcome driesie, the article you posted has been mentioned in another thread on mobileread .... https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89576 - different link, but similar message

[Dulin's Books]

my "dream" was always something like the bluechute http://www.positron.org/projects/bluechute/ for a 6inch that Holly Gates built a few years ago or the a51 A5 device you can see on his site.

or something like the readius (original one in this pic) http://www.eink.com/press/images/image_release_92.html

[fjtorres]

The Bluechute looks a bit like a PB360 or a TXTR.

[Dulin's Books]

exactly which is why i was so excited for both of them when i first saw them. I dont have a Txtr. I wish i did but i just couldn't buy it at that price without wifi. the pageone really appeals to me as well because it follows that aesthetic http://www.pageonestore.com/Pages/Site/MainPage.aspx Im trying to convince them to let me sell those

[DaringNovelist]

Hmmm.

My dream ebook reader would be pretty close to the one I've got - an iPod Touch. But it would have a longer battery life and be slightly larger. Not much - maybe a half inch wider. Any larger and it wouldn't fit in my purse.

It would also be cool if you could go back and forth from backlit to eInk.

Camille

[stargazertony]

OK. So what if it takes a bit longer to read an e-book over a paper book. I never judge anything about reading by the speed it takes me to read something. My sole criteria on a book is content. If a book doesn't grab me in the first 10 pages or so, I toss it. It simply doesn't matter to me how long it took to read those 10 pages.

[LDBoblo]

Originally Posted by stargazertony

OK. So what if it takes a bit longer to read an e-book over a paper book. I never judge anything about reading by the speed it takes me to read something. My sole criteria on a book is content. If a book doesn't grab me in the first 10 pages or so, I toss it. It simply doesn't matter to me how long it took to read those 10 pages.

Then stop being defensive and go read something.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by driesie

I dream of frameless, uncluttered full-screen eBook text with no visible computer or eBook controls.
In my dream I do not see text displayed on a glaring white background but graphic art at its best: a delicately textured off-white background, the gutter simulated by darker shades of off-white, the edges of the pages fuzzy lines simulating the edges of an open book.
Can you visualize what I see in my dream: how the softly rounded gutter and sloping page edges create the illusion an open 3d eBook?
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Apple's new Ipad does stuff like that. It's not an ebook reader, but you can read ebooks on it for short periods if you want to. People complain that the fuzzy lines at the edge of the pages stay the same all the way through the book instead of growing/shrinking as you read through it.

Me, I don't see the point in sticking a plastic horse's head on the bonnet of your car.

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by driesie

I dream of frameless, uncluttered full-screen eBook text with no visible computer or eBook controls.
In my dream I do not see text displayed on a glaring white background but graphic art at its best: a delicately textured off-white background, the gutter simulated by darker shades of off-white, the edges of the pages fuzzy lines simulating the edges of an open book.
Can you visualize what I see in my dream: how the softly rounded gutter and sloping page edges create the illusion an open 3d eBook?
I do not see ugly plain text on a flat, white computer screen or eBook text squashed into a tight frame of any kind. All I see in my dream is the pages of a real open book waiting to be read.
For my laptop there's an option to view ebooks in single or double page format. The single page display works for my smartphone too and a rounded darker shade of grey around the text creates a 3d effect, it’s as if the single page floats above the screen.
Here too there's nothing to click, not even a single button.
To turn a page I hover the curser for milliseconds in the lower right corner of the display. The text changes and I read on.
To return to a previous page I hover the cursor in the lower left corner of the display and I'm back where I was.
Whenever needed, I hover the cursor in say the top left corner and a narrow vertical panel containing all eBook controls slide out. I select the function I need, things happen, the panel slides back and I'm back where I left my eBook dream world.
The word is out: eBooks are slower to read than paper books.
Everybody needs to sit back and ask a simple question.
Why?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Eboo...ays/1278345706

My 'dream' ereader will come with a bevy of boobalicious babes, each slavering for the right to work hard, earn money and be instantly available to read the ebooks to me. I'll settle for nothing less!

Derek

[jj2me]

Day four after shoulder surgery, and I'm grateful to have an e-reader, and now have added the "page turn buttons on both sides" criterion (can't predict which arm may need to be immobilzed).

[Dulin's Books]

thats the beauty of the bluechute form/design- you rotate it to have the buttons on whichever side you want. which is one of the things i found disappointing with the DR800 from Irex. they hadnt programmed it for flipping 180 in portrait. elegant design and wonderful control in the form of the flip bar and they didnt allow for rotation other than to landscape.

[dougf4]

My dream Ebook reader...

She'd be about five foot seven, dressed like a librarian with a whiskey voice and.....

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Dulin's Books

exactly which is why i was so excited for both of them when i first saw them. I dont have a Txtr. I wish i did but i just couldn't buy it at that price without wifi. the pageone really appeals to me as well because it follows that aesthetic http://www.pageonestore.com/Pages/Site/MainPage.aspx Im trying to convince them to let me sell those

The PageOne does look interesting but I'm not much of a fan of 6 in readers anymore. (I've found the PB360 way more comfortable that any 6 incher I've owned/handled.)
If they had an 8-9 in model I'd be drooling.
...or a 6 in version with a 16x10 aspect ratio; that would be allmost exactly like a paperback page.

And the iRex did miss an obvious feature. But then it's pretty clear software just wasn't their thing.

[Dulin's Books]

I really liked the size of the DR800. I think i prefer that to the 6inch myself. If you want to put a keyboard at the bottom though i think 6 inch makes sense over 8 inch. I dont know why a reader hasnt come out in a 16x10 aspect.