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    This sounds horrible. With something the size of a cellphone, I can carry around 1000s of books. I can also swipe upward through pages, like a smartphone... All without worrying about tearing...

    The tiny editions are the size of a cellphone and no thicker than your thumb, with paper as thin as onion skin. They can be read with one hand — the text flows horizontally, and you can flip the pages upward, like swiping a smartphone.

    This sounds horrible. With something the size of a cellphone, I can carry around 1000s of books. I can also swipe upward through pages, like a smartphone... All without worrying about tearing pages as thin as onion skin.

    This really strikes me as something that misses the draw of physical books. It's like trying to make something as much like a smartphone as possible, checking all the wrong boxes.

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