This might be carrying on from the last ‘One Hour Challenge’ on E-readers.
I love reading books, but the clinical interface of current E-readers doesn’t thrill me.
I like the texture and feel of books and this idea is to help bring back this lost tactile feature as well as use the gestures/actions that u might use with a conventional book to navigate in an E-reader.
the concept is simple - to replicate the presence of pages, 3 sides of the device have 10-15 fin like protrusions (top, bottom and one of the sides) that are flexible and can be bent.
the navigation is separated from the screen but is intuitive and carries over from how you used to with a normal book
- To go to the next page - just pull the first fin up
- To go to the last page - pull the last fin down
- To bookmark a page - dog-ear the top corner (it’ll flatten back out)
- To move quickly to a page - fan through the page edges (“scrolling”)
- Jump to table of contents - pull all pages, but the first one, downwards
- Jump to index - pull all pages, but the last one, upwards
- Jump to the next chapter - quickly turn the page edge twice (like double clicking - and similarly for the last chapter)
the best part is that you can use the same device if your left handed or if your reading in a language that reads from Right to Left by just turning the device upside down!
