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.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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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.”
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.
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.
I never understood why nobody made an E reader that you could read “like a book” that just had two screens and a hinge
Why would you want that if you can have something light that can be held in one hand?
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
The hinge lasts longer than a foldy screen.
Apparently a foldable OLED screen is, typically expected to last at least 200.000 folds. That's more than a 100 folds/day for 5 years. I'd take my chances on one, I think.
Unless you go once near a beach and a single grain of sand gets past the airtight bag the phone was in and the Totally-IP67-We-Swear phone chassis and is fucking destroys the screen from the inside, with a repair bill worthy of a new phone because "that kind of damage is not under warranty".
Source : happened to one of my best friends. Fuck you with a folding dildo, Samsung.
Someone should make a folding dildo.
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5 years isn't that long
yeah but you're not folding it 100 times a day. if you're an avid reader, you're opening and closing it 10-20 times a day tops.
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Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.
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Yeah, OLED isn't really the best choice for an e-reader.
There's a reason e-ink is a thing.
"The mooInk V features an 8-inch folding E Ink screen that’s been tested to survive over 200,000 bends."
You could at least read the sub heading
Yeah that’s great but I really don’t want OLED on an ereader.
Once again, this isn't an OLED screen. It is an E Ink screen, like the black and white ones, but with color. And it folds, if you want that.
I get what you’re saying, but still… why did they put an OLED screen on it?
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I would buy it. But I'm not into the OLED screen
My eyes are dying already!
Make it smaller
reaches the 200,001th bend
snap
Damnit!
I hear if you fold it 42 times it’s thick enough to reach the moon
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
Who asked for this, I don't expect many people want a pocket able e reader to carry around every day, I carry my tiny shitty old Kindle in my backpack if needed, otherwise I just listen to audio books or read ebooks on my phone. But the foldable technolog itself is interesting and could have some novel applications down the line
Me* listen, it's just one of those things you have to try for yourself, when I got my first foldy phone I didn't get it specifically for reading (I had other more important use cases in mind) but man when I used it for the first time to read a book it was AMAZING to be able to hold it like a book.
Idk maybe I'm weird, but it's the little things like that lol
*But I want an eink version, but that might be a ways off :(
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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!
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…
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Close. But what I really want would look like a blank book. The pages would feel like paper. When I down load the material, text appears on the pages and I can flip back and forth. When I'm done I can download another book.
I know it's niche but that's what I want.
Can I interest you in a library?
I can't travel with a library.
I'm the kind of traveler who, after I check in, the first thing I look for is the bookcase where they put all the books that other guests have left. I have to give it to the Germans; they dominate every bookcase I've seen.
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I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven't read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven't read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
I don’t know whether this is sarcasm or not, can’t figure it out. But if isn’t, well, I suppose they won’t.
Reading is usually for oneself and not to show off, so I assume, people who purchase such a thing wouldn’t care about showing off.
I like reading normal books but, I currently prefer devices (I.E screens) because it’s easier to carry around, multiple books possible and less preying eyes “what are you reading”.
It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display books they'll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.
hey there's also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere
I buy books for collection purposes and to display them on the shelf for aesthetic reasons but read ebooks on my phone because it's way more convenient that way. I don't think it's really mutually exclusive.
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Thats funny, my lemmy automatically upvotes my own posts but yours aint.
I manually remove the auto upvote:D
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