Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold

Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by goatlover on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:45PM (#19211797)

Kindles are cheap and light, if digital reading is your goal.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by djhworld on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:47PM (#19211816)

I often read PDF versions of books (especially technical books) or PDFs of academic papers etc

I've never been able to view these properly on a kindle. Well, last time I tried anyway, is it better now?

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by jshevek on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:51PM (#19211849)

A foldable phone would be great for PDFs. I often want to flip between pages quickly, which Kindles still can't do.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by YUMad on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:44PM (#19212294)

Sony DPT-RP1.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by Shorel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:45PM (#19212308)

Kobo Aura One seems to be the right size for your use case.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by photojosh on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:03PM (#19213004)

Yep, I'm currently reading my EPUBs and PDFs on an ancient iPad 3. I researched a newer solution and settled on a Kobo Aura One (or perhaps the Forma which came out only recently) running the open-source KOReader [0], which is apparently much better than the built-in app on the Kobos. But I'm too cheap to upgrade while the iPad still works.

[0] http://koreader.rocks

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by Marsymars on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:28AM (#19214970)

I have an Aura One that I love (probably around 2k hours of use on it), but the PDF experience (of anything that can't be converted to epub anyway) is not good.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by jshevek on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:49PM (#19211836)

Kindles are not phones, the parent said "I want a phone that I can read books on, and spend quality time with..."

A foldable phone may meet his criteria, a Kindle would not.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by jblow on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:05PM (#19211971)

Right ... the point is, I can do higher-quality reading without carrying extra devices around.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by rrix2 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:34PM (#19213456)

How do you access the kindle when you're not at home?

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by jshevek on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:59PM (#19213594)

Based on the voting pattern at this point, I think several people may have misunderstood his last comment. He is the original person to post in support of a better phone based reading experience, not the Kindle advocate. So he prefers to carry one device, and uses his phone to read.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by rrix2 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:07PM (#19221507)

Yeah, I'll admit I didn't notice that. My apologies.

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Re:Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold by lwkl on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:30PM (#19212727)

And it does‘t have any distractions on it. When I‘m reading on my phone I always get distracted by messages or googling something.

Most of my books are still physical books. It‘s weird but I often buy books based on their cover.

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