New Sony E-Book Device To Debut This Year

Luke PiWalker writes "Sony hopes to pen a new chapter for e-books with a device set to debut later this year. The secret? A display based on E Ink technology that goes miles beyond LCDs and CRTs. From the article: 'Scheduled to go on sale this spring for between $300 and $400, the Reader is a compact slab about the size of a small paperback book (5-by-7 inches, and a half-inch thick). But it's the 3.5-by-4.8-inch display that made it the buzz of the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month in Las Vegas.'"

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Might concider buying one...

[EnsilZah]

If Apple made it.

I'm in no way an apple fanboy, but this seems like the kind of device that apple would do right.

Re:But will it come with a rootkit?

[RobertLTux]

speaking of public domain books does anybody have a script to take the Project Gutenburg DVD and 1 unzip the text files 2 rename them to something longer (ie the first 25 letters of the title) 3 and drop them into a folder tree in letter order (numbers in 1 folder "A" in the next folder "B" in the next...) bonus points if you include stripping the hard (40 column) formatting if you do have a script 1 get it online! 2 Gmail me with it