eReader Wars - My Gadget of Choice

I'll probably write later more thoroughly of presently furiously raging "eReader Wars", but here I'll briefly and narrowly broach the subject and present to you my Gadget of Choice at this point in time...


There is a new gadget I've been drooling for for some time now. It's called enTourage eDGe™. I have been interested in an eReader that also lets you do computer stuff with it. In short it should be multifunctional in the extreme.

Why then I don't buy a tablet PC or Apple iPad or something like that? Because they've got normal computer screens, LCD screens, which are not fun to read for a long time if you see what I mean. ePaper or eInk is a totally different thing. It really reads like paper! So you can read books like they were printed on paper - also in bright sunlight if you wish (which you cannot do with LCD screens) - and you can read your personal documents or e.g. any PDF files you have like paper.

I don't know if you see this as a big difference, but I do. Don't we all read more than enough stuff on our computer screen and hence irritate our eyes? What if you could take that THICK company document you need to study - at work, at home or when travelling - and read it like on paper without ever printing that stuff? And you could have all the THICK company documents you require with you where ever you are at all times in paper-like format?

This enTourage product is at this time at the top of my list of preferred eReaders. And of course it has all the multimedia capabilities built-in as well as network connectivity for web browsing, email and such. It has two screens where the traditional LCD is ideal for multimedia or web browsing and the ePaper screen is perfect for reading. Both screens are also touch screens which gives you ease of use unprecedented in traditional solutions. You can even write notes or draw pictures on the ePaper-screen. So you can also have your hand-written notes, saved automatically in digital form as you write...

Anyway, the possibilities are just endless. And the price tag? It's not too bad, it costs only 499 US Dollars! However, at this point they don't sell it in Europe, but that day can't be far away anymore... If I got you interested, here's a Youtube presentation of this fairy-tale-like-gadget:



More on the subject in Finnish:
MikroPC - Suomalaiset kustantajat innostuivat viimeinkin e-lukulaitteista
MikroPC - Asus esitteli ensimmäisen e-lukulaitteensa - katso video
Tietokone - Sähköinen paperi kaupallistuu
(LG.Philips ja E Ink)

And in Londonese:
The World of E-Readers