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1. There is nothing wrong with good designs that look old. See Victorian bentwood chairs or Claris Cliff pottery.
2. It doesn't look old. A Kindle Keyboard 3 or a Binatone Readme (any version) is old and looks it. 3. There is nothing wrong with the "bulk". Many tablets can't easily be held because there isn't enough bezel. 4. Kobo ereaders are the best on the market for novels. I've had many ereaders over the years. I had a mobile phone when it was analogue. I had an Apple II and an actual IBM AT. I also had an early smartphone, a Nokia N9210i (though smartphones had existed for 4 years). I've a Palm Z22. There is nothing old looking (not that old looking in itself is bad), nor too bulky about any of the three 3 Libra models, though I'd not want the Colour one using a Kaleido 3 screen. The cult of thinness maybe made sense in 2000, when the Dell Inspiron 7500 was new (heavy and very bulky), but now fatter with a bigger battery makes sense, but instead laptops so thin they need a bag of dongles due to having only USB-C. I've a Libra and a Libra 2 as well as almost brand new phones and tablets and a portable QHD screen. I can't recognise your complaint of the Libra. Have you mixed it up with a 1990s tablet computer running Windows for Pen Computing (based on Windows 3.1)? Last edited by Quoth; 08-02-2024 at 05:22 PM. |
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I don't know why OP is so intent on pushing their opinion on everybody else. Thank heavens we don't all have to think alike and value the same things. For ME the Libra 2 (not color) is pretty much ideal! I DO appreciate 7" over 6"! I DO appreciate the buttons! I DO appreciate the device being big enough to hold conveniently! I DO NOT need to fit it in a pocket. But that is ME! If it's not for you, just don't buy it! No need to try to convince anyone apart from yourself!
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I've no shorts, jeans, trousers, shirts etc that take any 5″ or larger ereader. I've only one jacket that will take even a 6″ Paperwhite 3 and it will take the 8″ Sage.
I'd never keep a phone in a jeans pocket. I know someone that did and twice they have broke the screen acidently walking into a bollard, but the main reason is that phones are now too big. I think choice is good and sadly due to Eink Corp virtual monopoly there is poor choice of screen sizes and with phones there is too much dominance of "fashion" and the different ones are either dumb phones or horribly expensive. My favourite phone was the N9210i, but I had to give it back when made redundant. Last edited by Quoth; 08-04-2024 at 10:55 AM. |
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What about a symmetrical reader, but with a choice of plug-ins, like the controllers on a Nintendo Switch? Cabled when docked and able to mate and be a BT remote?
There could also be a landscape mode keyboard dock/charger. A choice bezel widths, and buttons optional on wider ones. Nokia once made money selling phone backs. |
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