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This $50 case turns your phone into an e-reader minus the benefits of an e-reader

A person using an iPhone while it’s docked in Astropad’s Bookcase.
The Bookcase undoes years of smartphone makers working hard to reduce the size of screen bezels. | Image: Astropad

Astropad’s new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory designed to make reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn’t give your phone an easy-on-the-eyes screen, longer battery life, or any other features that have made devices like the Kindle popular. Instead, for $50 the Bookcase is really just designed to make a smartphone easier to hold like a book, while making your favorite reading app more accessible.

The Bookcase is essentially a magnetic attachment that adds chunky plastic handles on either side of your phone, making it roughly the size and shape of a paperback novel or an e-reader. Astropad says “any smartphone that can be attached to a magnetic wireless charger can be used with the Bookcase” even…

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