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Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April

Posted by timothy on from the small-in-japan dept.

Holly Gates writes "Sony will launch an ebook based on E Ink technology in Japan in late April. The screen is about as big as half a paperback book and has a spatial resolution of ~170ppi. The device includes various edictionaries and audio playback functionality. I am a hardware engineer for E Ink by the way, but I figured slashdotters might be interested." An anonymous reader notes that it is supposed to "display over 10,000 pages on a single set of batteries."

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  1. Books on paper by joeware · · Score: 1, Troll

    Reading books from a computer screen is not as good/enjoyable as from paper. So, this is definitely a step in the right direction.

    I get most of my books from the library for free, and I don't read newspapers, so I am not sure that I would be willing to pay for one of these, no matter how cool they are.

    BTW, it should be called Enk.

  2. Obligatory Jay and Silent Bob MisReference by bfg9000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    now you've got tons of people who can't pronounce CLI

    I am the CLI Commander!

    --

    I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."

  3. Re:Big Picture by TwistedGreen · · Score: 0, Troll

    It looks nice, but what are all those funny letters...?

  4. Jebus, its a Newton by sPaKr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its a newton with a keyboard. gdamn Apple is 10 years ahead of everyone.