The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted
as far as possible, choose devices with only one purpose, such as the Kindle ereader, on which it’s tedious and awkward to do anything but read.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Reaction to the Daylight tablet (hook: the computer, de-invented):
I’m intrigued. Even if it were a perfect device, it’s missing a key dimension of an analog device: mess. Maybe it reduces distractions and captures the tactility of a pen, but it’s still an “everything machine.” It removes the useful and awareness-inducing clutter of physical books a
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Perhaps the best way of conceptualizing this is to say that the device over-consolidates the materiality of reading in a way that smooths out the texture of our experience.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
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To call iBooks a throwaway “feature” of iOS is too dismissive, but the output does not give off the impression of a thing that must exist in the world, and must exist at the highest level of grace.
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
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you can sense when a product is crafted with grace
At one point in the interview she talks about screen fatigue leading people to crave more tactile experiences, and I think that’s a big part of it. It seems like every device we use today has a screen interface, and it’s exhausting:
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Have we reached peak touchscreen?
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de-technologize