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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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572 points bookofjoe | 5 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.871s | source
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TZubiri ◴[17 Oct 24 00:21 UTC] No.41865229[source]▶
We had books, but then we thought, what about screens. Then we had screens but we thought, what if screens were more like books. Then we had book screens and we thought, what if the screens we made to look like books were more like screens.
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1. kevmo314 ◴[17 Oct 24 00:26 UTC] No.41865245[source]▶
Next up: a kindle with physical pages, each page is a screen!
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2. entropie ◴[17 Oct 24 01:11 UTC] No.41865483[source]▶
It might also fold!
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3. thimabi ◴[17 Oct 24 01:15 UTC] No.41865507[source]▶
Come to think of it, a foldable Kindle would be very nice! And not just because it has the format of a book.

The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that.

Edit: also, holding the device semi-opened, hands on its back, seems much more comfortable than holding it by the bezels as we currently do.

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4. chipdart ◴[17 Oct 24 06:32 UTC] No.41866969{3}[source]▶
> The portability of a Paperwhite combined with the note-taking ability of a Scribe… there’s probably a market for that.

There are already erasable notebooks that allow you to scan your notes and send the document to a storage of your choosing. Even BIC sells one of them.

5. dredmorbius ◴[19 Oct 24 00:14 UTC] No.41884592[source]▶
The industry's got you covered:

<https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/readmoo-to-l...>

<https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21361545/folding-e-ink-re...>

(I'm not even remotely saying this would be a Good Thing. I recently saw my first foldable smartphone. And it was broken.)