Sony/E Ink e-book reader

Sony is the latest company to enter the fray with an e-book reader:

The LIBRIe reader is the result of a three-year collaboration between Sony, Royal Philips Electronics, Toppan Printing and E Ink. The LIBRIe reader was designed to allow readers to download and store information to be read later, using a light, low-power display. It is expected to compete with tablet PCs and other means of displaying downloadable media.

As far as we can see from Sony's site, this looks like the same old same old in terms of not allowing anything but pay content to find its way into the thing (it uses a proprietary format and books are downloaded through Sony's Timebook Town download site). If you could hook it to an RSS reader on a home PC and download the day's headlines to read on the way to work, or use it to proof and annotate your own documents, then we'd be interested...

Scheduled to go on sale on April 24 in Japan for about Y40,000. Size is 126 x 190 x 13 mm, weight 190g.

[Read: ExtremeTech article]