[peterkelly]

I don't expect this will happen. There's a good reason why floppy disks are no longer used, but I would be surprised if physical books ever go away.

Personally, as much as I like the convenience of digital books, there's nothing quite like the reading experience that comes with a printed physical book.

[lxgr]

Sure, but how much closer to the physical book reading experience does a page flip animation really get us?

In my experience, what makes a digital reading app pleasant to use are other things: Responsiveness, choice of default fonts, whether or not it allows the publisher to apply ridiculous style overrides (e.g. forcing the background to be light grey even in night mode), not losing track of pagination at chapter boundaries (so that flipping back across a boundary, paragraphs don't mysteriously shift up or down half a page)...

I'll take a reading app that does these things well, but only uses a simple slide animation over one that imitates a perfect page flip, but otherwise botches the concept of a "page", any day.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

On the contrary, I much prefer reading from a tablet or a smartphone. Unlike printed books, they glow in the dark!

[Retric]

Glowing in the dark is as much a bug as a feature. Lit screens work best in a dark room, where a reading light is more pleasant when you pause reading to do something else.

I spend an inordinate amount of time either turning lights on an off or trying to use the not quite sufficient tablet screen to do stuff.

[real-dino]

I use a headtorch, and then end up staying awake for 2 hours after.

[Tagbert]

An e-ink reader does it better because the front lighting is less glaring and the overall image is more stable. It’s hard to get a phone screen to the right brightness level for reading in the dark, but an ereader will have a very dim front light that you only notice when the room is completely dark.

[kiririn]

Do any exist with warm colour temperatures? My kindle paperwhite is at least 6500k and basically unusable without an external light source

[terramex]

Kindle Paperwhite 5th gen has both amber and white LEDs and its color temperature can be adjusted. I don't know exactly what light temperature range it has but it feels very "warm" on maximum setting.

[obahareth]

Some of the ones from Onyx Boox have customizable cold/warm temperature sliders.

[tlavoie]

My Kobo Libra H2O has quite a warm backlight, with variable brightness. I don't recall if the colour temperature is adjustable however.