Amazon is reportedly exploring a Kindle with a folding screen that opens and closes like a real book

• A future Kindle might open and close like a book, according to $4.
• Samsung popularized the folding screen with the $4, but the tech is still in its early days.
• The global e-reader market is expected to $4 over the next four years.

The pros and cons of Kindles are discussed at great lengths among bibliophiles. The conveniences of a light device and a vast digital library are great, but many readers prefer the physical feeling of reading an open book and turning its pages.

Amazon could meet readers somewhere in the middle with a future product.

The tech giant is exploring a Kindle with a folding screen that opens and closes like a real book, $4. Gurman described the exploration as at the internal discussion stage, meaning Amazon could choose not to proceed with it.

Samsung was the $4 with the Galaxy Fold, but not without design hiccups. The $2,000 phone broke for some reviewers just days after use, causing Samsung to push back the release date.

The $4, fixing the original's biggest problems and introducing a larger screen and more durable structure.

Amazon released the first Kindle over a decade ago. The $399 device was thick and heavy with a physical keyboard - and sold out in under six hours. By 2010, e-readers were expected to kill off the sale of physical books, $4 to the growing music streaming industry.

Today, print books are more popular than e-books, $4, a recovery that many owe to the physicality of hardcovers that Kindles have yet to effectively replicate. By 2025, the global e-reader market is expected to $4

A quick scroll through #booktok, a corner of TikTok where $4, shows that print is far from dead - especially with younger readers.

"I'm a sucker for paperbacks," Erika Semprem, a 23-year-old $4 told Insider. "But I do love that Kindles are more convenient. Instead of driving 25 minutes to the bookstore, I can purchase whatever book I'm in the mood for right away."

Ten generations of Kindles later, Amazon says the latest Kindle Oasis "reads like real paper" with e-ink technology and fast page turns. As of 2019, $4, with the Kindle listed as the most widely-owned device.

If internal talks to make a foldable Kindle solidify, this could be the e-reader book lovers have been waiting for.