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> Navigating to find content on the Kindle or Nook is poor, which would be ok if we would be happy with just having ebooks in our hands versus also having emaga
by pqb 5y ago
> Navigating to find content on the Kindle or Nook is poor, which would be ok if we would be happy with just having ebooks in our hands versus also having emagazines and enewspapers. Once you add the rest of the paper world of content navigation would become lackluster at best.
As a Kindle Paperwhite 3rd generation owner I am sad it is true. e-newspaper/e-magazine leave very bad experience, pushing me away to resign from using it (thank God I have been on trial). I also don't understand why magazines are displayed in such horrible way on Kindle. When I have given my Kindle to a person, who on daily basis purchase a paper version of a newspaper, she said me using it is completely no-go for her, while she has no problem to read typical ebooks on my device.
I wish e-readers will evolve - to be a device that would help me learning, making notes, be a calendar and todolist instead of just only having me entertained of reading an ebook. I am basically looking forward to Kindle being an handy org-mode-like replacement. I would like to have a planner, which could synchronize with some ical/caldav calendar. I would like to have a bit better specs of device, so responsiveness of e-ink keyboard will be instant - I usually have typos thanks to low latency of the display. I would love to make notes separately from ebooks/documents - think like diary, draft notes or just stupid shopping list. I would like to find some method/methodology, which will help me go back to my quotes and in-book notes to extract from them more meaningful way. I would like to have better web-browser or some converter for HN, which will reading (and annotating) articles and comments section on HN pleasant enough. Maybe I am silly, but I believe it is all possible to achieve that in a form of e-ink reader.
iPad can have all of those things right at the moment, but I don't see myself (yet) as a owner of tablet with a LCD screen. Perhaps, I will afford it, because I am already sold on how good VoiceOver on macOS is and I suppose Kindles will never deliver anything close to what Apple can bring in terms of accessibility features. However, I still keep fingers crossed for competitors like ReMarkable [0] or Supernote.
[0]: https://remarkable.com/ https://remarkable.com/
[1] https://supernote.com/ https://supernote.com/
- geoduck14 5y agoSupernote has a really done website. Bravo to their designer.
- WalterBright 5y agoI'm fine with an ereader that is just an ereader, and optimized to be an ereader.
- emodendroket 5y agoThe experience with the newspaper is not so good, I agree. But I think the magazine experience is fine, at least if you're reading a mostly-words magazine.
- 3np 5y agoFor developers there’s also the upcoming PineNote. The RK3566 should be powerful enough for all the above. https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/ https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/
- bern4444 5y agoI also would love for a paper like digital experience. Remarkable and Supernote both look great. I've known about Remarkable for a while, and supernote from your comment just now. I want the experience of paper, most importantly of which is the e-ink screen and feel of writing. I do not want another LCD/LED screen device. The biggest points for me are * E-Ink (or similar screen) * Very low lag when writing (Remarkable 2 is at ~21ms which is incredible) * Long Battery (Cause it's E-Ink...) * Fast Refresh Rate - The kindle refresh rate when flipping through pages is so slow. It's very frustrating to navigate on for non indexed pages. * Enhance any supported capability with digital notes (books, emails, pdfs etc). Anything the device supports should become an extended surface for hand written notes and markup from any other device or access method (web, phone etc). I think Apple has the biggest chance here since they are so focused on integration across services, products, and devices. They have their own email client, their own messaging platform, their own browser, their own book store. They can work to enhance any of these. They already have with iPad. But an e-ink device is very much not meant as an iPad. It really is digital paper (a common term, not trying to say I came up with it) but in a preserving way.