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Astropad Launches 'Bookcase' for Turning an iPhone Into an E-Reader
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And cost less than a $1 to make with import fees. This seems like a real niche product or scam!
Am i losing the touch of cutting edge tech. Things like these, get conceptualised, designed, fund approved, mass produced, but to me its literally a junk, DOA.
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This would have been a possible buy for me if they added buttons. I'm not sure how it works in the Kindle and other 3rd party book apps. But in the Apple Books app, I can press space bar or shift-space to go back and forth respectively or left and right arrow keys. This made using my iPhone + Clicks Keyboard case a much better ebook reader for me.
Genuinely made me laugh out loud, which actually made it more useful to me than some products, but not in a way that will be profitable for them unfortunately.
As a lot of others are saying, if this somehow had physical page-turning buttons (which would be impossible unless you got all the e-reader app makers to support it) I could somewhat see this being useful.
As it is though? No way. Why would I carry around a case that's almost the size of a Kindle, when I could just carry around an actual Kindle.
I'm really not sure how this got made. Bit sad for the team behind it though.
As it is though? No way. Why would I carry around a case that's almost the size of a Kindle, when I could just carry around an actual Kindle.
I'm really not sure how this got made. Bit sad for the team behind it though.
I am so not the target market for this, and given the cheap price of e-paper readers and the lack of page-turning buttons, I'm not entirely sure there is a market for this, but the NFC tag to open an app when you magsafe your phone into it is a clever idea.
I hadn't thought of this kind of use case before, but now that there's better NFC reader access on the iPhone, and given how cheap NFC tags are, there are probably all kinds of cool tricks you could hack together.
Aah, another "disrupter" CEO idea...
This is like 2$ and your thumb can actually reach to turn pages, to, you know, read...
This is like 2$ and your thumb can actually reach to turn pages, to, you know, read...
Eh, I’ve been reading ebooks on little handheld devices since I had my first Palm IIIe.
Or...an e-reader...
I know using an e-reader to read books is futuristic now, but someday people will stop inventing ways to read ebooks and just use e-readers.
One day a company will storm the market with a revolutionary device to read books, they will call it something like kondle...kandle or something like that.
Mark my words
No one using their phone in public is holding it tightly enough to resist having it snatched by a runner so there is nothing about this which makes it more easily stolen.
