Librie - the first commercial e-paper reader
The e-paper is coming to reality in the form of 6 inch screen with higher than usual 170 dpi and $318 price tag. It runs a customized version of Linux, and coming under Sony brand supports MemoryStick. The British journalists claim that three AAA batteries keep it up for 10,000 pages, but it’s not too clear whether they’ve actually verified it, or just read the press-release. The same article in Guardian talks about having to use some proprietary DRMed book library to download the titles for Librie, so TXT, HTML, PDF or LIT are probably out of the question. Have to appreciate the Guardian’s support of the user: “Thanks to Open MG protection, the content is unreadable after two months”. Thanks, indeed. The manufacturers are hoping to sell 5,000 of these a month as their best-case scenario.