Foldable eBooks
from the getting-closer dept
There's just something about the flat ebook that doesn't appeal to many people. However, how would people feel if their electronic books folded down the middle like a regular book. For some reason, that seems slightly more appealing. Of course, I'm still not ready to throw out my many bookshelves filled with books, but it's good to see that people are working on ebooks that seem a little more user friendly.
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foldable e-book
Start with a lo-res screen on the topside of the device, suitable for calendar, celfon control and other mundane one-handed tasks. The inner screen would perhaps be rotated ninety degrees, and since the control mechanism (buttons, Grafitti area, thumb-type-keyboard, et al.) would only take up real estate on the bottom half, you have more than doubled the screen real estate. For folks with old geezer eyes (like me, bifocaled at 48) or folks with vision (macular degeneration) or cognitive problems (e.g.: A 13-y.o. nephew o mine can't grog text below 14 pt.), and you've got a winner.
How many PDA users have bifocals? How many kids with type-size sensitive text cognition disorder are there in the States, entited to a device under special ed mandates? How many folks have macular degeneration or other similar disorders? Gee, whiz, three ready markets.
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