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!
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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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…
Onyx Boox runs android
No custom roms
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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.
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.
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.
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.”
My hope is that they just put android on it so I can just sync it with whatever like nextcloud, or at least callibre support. Then I would just never enable wifi and sync it with my desktop.
reaches the 200,001th bend
snap
Damnit!
I hear if you fold it 42 times it’s thick enough to reach the moon
I never understood why nobody made an E reader that you could read “like a book” that just had two screens and a hinge
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.
Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?
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
for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality
Two Kindle, one duct tape
but then i'd need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that's like, effort
not everything has to be optimised for practicality
I see what you did there ;)
True, but this solution also lacks the vibes. It's directionally correct though!
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My eyes are dying already!
Make it smaller
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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