Not to be a hater, but why? (Referring to the two screens, not the open source part)
Obvious answer is to be more like a normal book
Sure, but again, why? People who care about the physical feel of books just get them from the library. People who want something convenient have e-readers. It feels like a worst of both worlds more than a best
Probably much cheaper and easier to get, while allowing for a reasonably large total screen size.
Yeah, I also don’t really see the appeal of a two screen format. Currently use a boox palma 2 phone sized reader. I keep my font size pretty large but don’t really find needing to turn the page a bit more a burden.
Some books are written or laid out with two pages in mind. What this specific e-reader unfortunately doesn’t solve is the problem with double page spreads in manga (although digital versions, at least those I use, don’t spread them on two pages anyway).
Also I could see it being useful if you can “pin” some pages on one side, especially if you need to compare multiple documents on the fly.
Too bad the front isn’t a screen too. It would be pretty awesome to open a book and automatically slave the front screen to the book’s cover.
Also strange that the dev didn’t enable wifi. That’s just strange. It’s running an esp32, it has a wifi chip and getting it to connect is incredibly easy.
Probably don’t want the burden of keeping the firmware up-to-date with the latest security fixes, and miminizes the risk of a security exploit if that door isn’t opened.
We really need FLOSS ebook readers
Pretty cool. I tried to google it, and I couldn’t actually find the source for it. Just a bunch of articles about it and a reddit thread.
I’m curious what it’s written in
Can verify there’s no source open, checked the dev’s github linked from the diptyx web page
