Those were something, weren't they? I thought it was the coolest thing ever as a kid, just the absolute peak of technology.
And in hindsight... Yeah, it was a pretty comfortable way to play videos and music, wasn't it? And the click wheel iPods even had a surprisingly decent selection of games.
While I'm here, whatever happened to those Kindle e-readers with the physical page turn buttons and keyboard? I kinda feel like they stopped selling those, but I feel like that was kind of preferable to a touch screen, too.
I guess just in general I don't like touch screens and it'll be a good day when they stop being integrated into things that don't actually need them. I'm out here thinking that flip phones beat smartphones still
There’s one in development that I’m considering building, it’s called the Open Book and here’s the project page https://theopenbook.is/
I think the mainstream option is probably a Kobo Libra with something like KoReader installed.