the dual-display ebook reader project

Nicholas Chen

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Education

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• Nicholas
• Chen
• CHI
• 2008

[milkmiruku]

please please please, remake this as a video! thanks!

[jschloer]

Add &fmt=18 to the end of the url and you'll see it as a video. Youtube munged it up somehow.

[hossrex]

@bananacocoabean

No smart ass reply? Yeah... occasionally I also run into someone smarter than me... not often, but occasionally.

This must be frustrating for you.

[hossrex]

@bananacocoabean

First off... LOL at your year belated bump... second... it's a year later, and the eBook market has positively EXPLODED beyond ANYTHING either of us could have guessed twelve months ago.

So where is the industry?

Not using fucking dual screens. That's where it is. I don't even need to PROVE you wrong anymore. The other 6,999,999,999 people on Earth proved it for me.

Dual screens are an expensive waste. The market proved you wrong. Why still arguing?

[bananacocoabean]

@hossrex

yet some designs are more accessible to the general audience. How things are presented can play a role in how well it's absorbed. Technology is coming to a point where additional or expanded features don't pose significant threats to performance

[PastExpiryDotCom]

Just buy a Netbook and be done with it.

[limeroundup]

It's too large.. but this vid is also from 2008 :P

[vozpit]

Absolutely useless.

[hossrex]

@bananacocoabean

The design of BOOKS are restrictive. The design of EVERYTHING is restrictive. That doesn't mean it can't be educational, which is all that's necessary. The dual screen is a pointless throwback to printed books, and a completely unnecessary expense.

[bananacocoabean]

@hossrex ummmmm. not really. Even if textbooks are redone to be displayed on current ebook readers, the design of the ebook reader itself is restrictive.

[hossrex]

@bananacocoabean

Which will be entirely remedied once the next generation of text books come out designed specifically for eBook readers, which makes your entire point moot.

[bananacocoabean]

@hossrex it doesn't make straight up reading easier. The narration points out that current ebook readers limits readers to only one style of reading. That's fine if you're only reading novels and such. But for other materials, like textbooks, students especially, do tasks that extend past the capabilities of current ebook readers.