When I begin up this morning , I threw my Kindle in my cup of tea ’s pad courdoroy laptop sleeve like I always do . A few hours afterwards , I pulled it out and it looked like this .
allow , this is part my fracture — I did n’t keep it in the horrifying cover that comes with the Kindle , just like I do n’t lock my iPhone or any other gadget in disfiguring cover , since I ’m all about naked gadgets ( almost altogether for aesthetic reasons ) , and I think my bag ’s cushiony arm provided sufficient protection . Apparently it does not when you have a heavy DSLR on the other side of the stuffing and some guy rope slams into your bag .
A script made out of dead trees would ’ve buckled and crisp and returned to its original shape . So would a reader with a flexile video display likePlastic Logic‘s , which at one point was said to withstand father smackedby a shoe . Which actually take itone step closer to emulating booksthan the more fragile Kindle or any other E - Ink powered reader — too badPlastic Logic ’s lector is about a class away . ( Though it says something about the Kindle that I ’d sort of taken to deal it almost like a real book , and that this is the first time I ’d in reality materially felt the crack between it and paper . )

https://gizmodo.com/plastic-logic-e-book-reader-video-tour-and-hands-on-5271693
The story for other form of conciliatory displays , like bendy OLED , is actually even more cheerless , since “ progress ” at this head mean they’renow 5 years by . Given how light it is break screens , and how much we depend on them now — witness the slow corner buttons , though I ’m certain they ’ll see a retro counter - touch revival — rugged displays that we can treat like organic materials instead of delicate magic under the constant threat of end by bare mundane living might be more revolutionary than expect .
https://gizmodo.com/flexible-oled-screens-are-really-coming-now-5273364

Or possibly I ’ll just have to learn to be more heedful . [ Giz ’s Kindle Review ]
https://gizmodo.com/kindle-2-review-sheeeyah-more-like-kindle-1-5-5163042
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