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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

The mooInk V includes a reading mode allowing it to be held half-folded like a paperback.

The ereader has a reading mode?? This changes everything!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can we just get a thin tablet like e reader with small bevels that can run any normal OS? Android or Linux? Ik they are some but they are mostly Chinese with proprietary hardware and software…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

No custom roms

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How would american with proprietary chinese hardware and software change anything for you?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like to have control over my computing platforms? And I don’t like to have my shit break when they completely abandon the platform a couple months down the road? That’s why I want FOSS solutions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Capitalism really doesn’t allow for FOSS hardware

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The cynic in me wants to know: Once purchased, will it, and any media it might contain at any time, be under the sole control of the purchaser?

If not, it's definitely not worth buying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Did some searching, and all of Readmoo's previous devices run Android. So you aren't forced to buy any books from them. Install whatever reading app you want and get your books with whatever method you choose.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since it's from china, some security trust issues aside, musing from perspectives of OnePlus and Onyx Boox, yep, you completely control the device and what you put on it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Who wouldn’t want a safe, secure America ereader. A country that takes care of their citizens. Spreads freedom. Values privacy. A good Christian nation, definitely not ran by the rich. Yikes. “China bad.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'll wait until Kobo makes one

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I never understood why nobody made an E reader that you could read “like a book” that just had two screens and a hinge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

While that sounds cool to me, it kind of defeats my main purpose of switching to an e-reader in the first place. I have trouble holding physical books for a long time due to hand pain. I had a similar issue with the e-reader, just not as bad, until I put a PopSocket on the back of it. Now I can hold it with the PopSocket resting in-between 2 fingers and can read significantly longer.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I read a lot of technical material that has lots of diagrams and it’s difficult with an E reader paging back-and-forth between the text and the diagram that I’m trying to understand

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (14 children)

The hinge lasts longer than a foldy screen.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

My eyes are dying already!

Make it smaller

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

reaches the 200,001th bend

snap

Damnit!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I hear if you fold it 42 times it’s thick enough to reach the moon

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Interesting! I just recently upgraded my old 6" Kindle to a 7" Kobo. I'm very happy about it, and the extra size is nice. If a more portable reader that doesn't compromise on screen size exists when I'm ready to upgrade next I'm all for it

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