E-book concept combines leather and multi-touch

It's likely that the Kindle's popularity is going to spawn a whole slew of e-books vying for the eyes of readers. A concept from a student named Nedzad Mujcinovic at Monash University could very well stoke the fires of competition if his Livre ever makes it to store shelves. The system uses an e-ink screen overlaid with a touch surface, thus forgoing the multitudinous buttons of the Kindle for an ultra-simple, gesture-based input scheme. Pages can be turned by sliding your finger from corner to corner, though double- and triple-finger gestures will advance the book by ten and 50 pages, respectively. Most notable for real book fans is the inclusion of a leather stitched cover, meant to evoke the look and feel of the device's analog counterpart. Amazon's designers would be wise to, uh... take a page from Nedzad's book for the Kindle 2.

[Thanks, Nick B.]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2008 3:28PM]

I'm working on the hack that will enable the eBook to read itself. Achievments galore!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2008 3:31PM]

This Design has a terrible lack of foresight, or industrial design initiative. You need a fold out, with tow touch screens to be similar to a regular book form factor. You need apple's Iphone touch screen capability to zoom. You need a scroll wheel to flip through a lot of pages, and a Darn good processor.
Point I'm trying to make is incorporate what works for Pocket PCs (PDAs) and merge it with the intuitive use of a regular book! The tech and concepts are simple. The price however is probably still too high.
This current concept conveyed falls under "who built this crap?"

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2008 7:01PM]

In other words, we're coming full circle on this whole e-book thing. Let's just make the final leap and...stick with paper.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2008 8:13AM]

This clearly fails to be an .

I like the swipe idea but that would seem to drive the price up even more. The floppy leather cover might be nice too...

I've been reading Mobi Dick, The New York Times, Littlegreenfootballs and a boat load of other stuff on my new Kindle for a couple of weeks now. The true killer feature of book readers in general is electronic ink and it's the cellular connection for the Kindle in particular.