e-readers

The two leaves can be opened and closed to simulate turning pages, or even separated to pass round or compare documents. When the two leaves are folded back, the device shows one display on each side. Simply turning it over reveals a new page.

Neat. Think it’ll catch on?

Another argument for printed books and against e-books/readers. “…if Johannes Gutenberg were alive today, he would easily recognise his invention. This is because books are like sharks and platypuses - they remained unchanged because they have reached evolutionary perfection.”

Author Sandra Schwab does reviews the Cybook e-reader from Bookeen. Aside from what appear to be a few minor irritations, the Cybook sounds like a highly useable and comfortable reader, and it looks pretty good too.

A few suggestions on how Amazon could make the Kindle more user-friendly without hurting their sales.

“Borders has joined with Sony to launch a co-branded online store offering e-book titles for Sony’s Reader Digital Book device. The new Borders/Sony online eBook store will offer access to the 25,000 titles available for the device that are generally sold through the Sony eBook Store.” That’s not all. Buy a Sony Reader before January 15th and get $50 credit at the new store.

Hate the Kindle? Think you could do better? Apparently quite a few people thought so; over fifty entries were received in this competition. Here are a couple of nifty new designs for e-readers.

Hot off the press, bloggers react to the new e-reader from Amazon. Some have taken issue with the price and cost of feeds, while others are impressed by its tech features. Most, however, agree that the hours-old device is beyond ugly.