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Seems that a Kobo and https://getpocket.com would be right up his alley.
(The recent Aura HD is a 300 dpi pocketable device comparable to the Kindle Paperwhite)
I was in the Kindle org when it was blowing up at Amazon. Started when there were a few dozen people in Seattle working on it, ended when there were a few thousand. They're right that it could've been more. Back in the early days, after the launch of the second version, many people internally saw this. If this works for books, it should work for magazines! Newspapers! Websites! Crosswords! Apps of all sorts! Social n…
Isn't eInk a bit like OLED, but way more ahead of our time? I think it's a cool technology, but probably needs more money/time to be general purpose.
Light Phone: "dumb" phone (https://www.thelightphone.com)
Freewrite: word processors (https://getfreewrite.com)
reMarkable: notepad (https://remarkable.com)
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400 ppi :-)
Hm, supposedly even 600 ppi is coming: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/will-we-see-500-or-600-... I guess this makes more of a difference for japanese characters or I just don't know yet what I am missing :-)
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I'd just like to be able to write apps for the remarkable. Even a free one.
You can! For example, I wrote an app launcher for the device which allows you to boot other programs, or the default interface.
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He’s suggesting it could be a really good newspaper and magazine reader as well, not that it should become an iPad.
A black and white reader isn't going to be a good newspaper or magazine reader. There are better devices for that. He also wished for an app store and that starts to sound a lot like wishing it become an iPad. That a Kindle is boring is a feature, not a problem. I don't pick up a Kindle for the Kindle-ness, it's for the books on it. With the right book, some days that boring Kindle is the device that I just can't put…
Considering newspapers were black and white for hundreds of years, and for a long time printed color photos as black and white, this seems an odd conclusion.
I'm more of a fan of the Nook and Kobo series (ability to sideload DRM-less ePubs is non-negotiable). But I like the less-is-more approach for e-readers; if anything, I'd prefer they had even more spartan/minimalist UIs, mimicking the "zero UI" affordances of a physical book as much as possible. I'm just being finicky, but I still find the e-ink screen flash a little distracting from the flow of reading (even in newe…
So instead of a 5ms flash, you have to take 0.5s turn the device around? And have one more sensitive surface to care about? Personally I used to find the flash bothering at first, but now I actually set mine to full-refresh on every page change to totally avoid burn-in. It's not a worse distraction than physically turning a book page.
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Isn't eInk a bit like OLED, but way more ahead of our time? I think it's a cool technology, but probably needs more money/time to be general purpose.
With the recent customer desire of devices that are better at not sucking up our time & attention, eInk becomes an interesting technology. A few product attempts: Light Phone: "dumb" phone ( https://www.thelightphone.com ) Freewrite: word processors ( https://getfreewrite.com ) reMarkable: notepad ( https://remarkable.com )
The best would be to design a dual screen book-like device like the "Surface Neo/Duo" but with e-Ink display (preferably colour) and give me an easy and affordable way to download Technical papers/Textbooks (mainly in PDF format). Allow markup/annotations and the ability to print/export notes/everything and every Student/Teacher/Professor will buy one. Bonus if i can use it as a second monitor (ala Onyx Boox Max 2). No other distractions are needed. All the money goes into the display and giving me a complete immersive book-like experience.
The older generation of Kindles were nearly perfect devices. I have the last model that was not touchscreen and had the physical paddle buttons on both sides to turn pages, so you can easily read with either hand. It doesn't have a ton of storage, but you can fit hundreds of text-only .mobis in a GB. The battery lasts for weeks, with the wifi turned off. I'm not so impressed with the newer models. Switching to a touc…
Yeah, a touchscreen and an ereader are a match made in hell. Just try to hold the reader and swipe with the same hand. Reading with one hand on the Kindle Keyboard is great. You can stand in the security line with one hand on your luggage and the other reading the KK. I have no idea how the touch interface ever got through Amazon usability testing.
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Amazon even give them all a unique email address so you can just send it supported files as easy as emailing a file. PDFs can be converted to native format by putting "convert" in the subject line.
The send-to-kindle email is a nice feature which I wish other e-readers supported. The only other one I know of which supports it is PocketBook. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247639 I've worked on a service which converts web articles and sends them to the Kindle using Amazon's send-to-kindle feature. If anyone wants to try it: https://pushtokindle.fivefilters.org
I've been using it for a while and it changed the way I read the web. I subscribe to RSS feeds with Feedly, then use p2k to send the ones I want to read. Then when I'm eating my lunch I can read interesting stuff without getting sucked into the temptation of aimless browsing, and on a nicer screen. An added bonus is that I don't get exposed to the cesspit of the comments section that seems to lurk at the bottom of every article these days :)