1000s of eBooks at your fingertips: New Reader with 6" touchscreen
Reader Touch Edition™, holds 350 eBooks or 13,000 with extra memory
Overview
Get interactive with your eBook library
Take your favourite books with you wherever you go with the Reader Touch Edition™. Ultra light, slim and intuitive, it features a 6" paper-like touchscreen display for a totally interactive reading experience - whether you're commuting, travelling or relaxing at home.
Carry 100s of books wherever you go
Not sure which books to take on your trip or commute? Carry hundreds of eBooks at a time and you'll never have to make that choice again! Reader is lighter than a typical paperback and you can easily store hundreds of titles in your bag or pocket to take with you wherever you go.
Make notes and highlight passages
Studying the classics or spotted something of interest? Reader Touch Edition™ lets you get interactive with your eBooks and documents. Turn pages with one touch, create annotations on the virtual keyboard, highlight text with the stylus pen and double-tap a word on-screen to find its meaning.
Play music while you read
Find your favourite eBook, get comfortable in a chair or sun lounger and plug in some headphones. For total relaxation, you can listen to music on your Reader whilst you enjoy your book. The device supports many popular file formats, including MP3 and AAC audio files.
Read 1000s of pages on one charge
Getting to the end of a good novel is the best bit! You won't worry about reaching the last page with the great battery life on Reader. It gives you thousands of continuous page turns from a single charge – enough to last for up to two weeks of reading, to get you through the longest journeys.
Read at any angle, and in sunlight
The highly advanced screen technology is gentle on the eye, with five adjustable font sizes to improve readability.The E Ink® Vizplex™ display gives a more natural paper-like reading experience.With no backlight or flicker, you can read for hours in direct sunlight and at virtually any angle.
- Get interactive with the new Reader Touch Edition™: Turn pages with the slide of a finger, create annotations on the virtual keyboard and highlight text with the stylus pen
- Quickly search for books or words on the virtual keyboard. Or simply double-tap a word on-screen and find its meaning in the built-in dictionary (English language only)
- Easy to read 6" E Ink® Vizplex™ paper-like screen has no backlight or flicker so you can read for hours - even in direct sunlight and at virtually any angle. 8 levels of grey scale gives ultra fine text detail
- Built-in 512MB memory easily stores up to 350 eBook titles, so you can carry all your favourite novels on-the-go. Add more memory with MS Duo (up to 16GB) and SD card (up to 16GB) slots for up to 13,000 eBook titles - practically an entire library
- Long battery life with 7,500 continuous page turns from a single charge – enough to last up to two weeks, and get you through the longest journeys
- Huge choice of new titles, bestsellers and classics to buy, borrow or download legally for free. Easily and speedily transfer from your PC to your Reader Touch Edition™ via USB 2.0 cable
- Intuitive eBook Library software for PC and Mac makes it easy to download eBooks, manage your collection and transfer titles to your Reader Touch Edition™
- Read eBooks in a choice of file formats: Reader Touch Edition™ supports EPUB (industry standard), PDF, Text, RTF, Word and BBeB. Also displays most common image and photo file types including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP (in black-and-white)
- Add bookmarks for a real reading experience: Automatically find the page you were last reading, and call up stored eBooks quickly by Author, Title or Date. Choose from five adjustable font sizes to improve readability
- Use with headphones to listen to music while you read (MP3 or AAC files)
- Thin highly portable design with front aluminium panel in a choice of new colours to suit your own personal style
- Choose from a range of covers to protect, personalise and keep your Reader Touch Edition™ looking good
- Other accessories for the Reader Touch Edition™ include a cover with light for use at night-time, AC adaptor and car charger
- Carry pouch, USB and quick start guide supplied
Full Specification
Display Screen
Technology: E Ink® Vizplex™ touchscreen
Screen size (inch): 6
Resolution: 800x600 (h/w)
Grey scale: 8-level grey scale
Storage Capacity
Built in flash memory (MB): 512 (Approx. 350 eBooks) *
MemoryStick™ MS DUO slot: YES
SD Card Slot: YES
Power
Battery Type
Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery: DC 3.7 V
Battery Life (reading EPUB eBooks): Approx 7500 page turns
Recharging Time: Four hours with USB, two hours with optional AC charger
Compatible Formats
Unsecured / free eBooks & text files: EPUB eBook, Adobe® PDF, Microsoft® Word, TXT, RTF, BBeB
DRM (Secure / purchased) eBooks and text files: EPUB eBooks (Adept) BBeB eBooks (Marlin)
Unsecured Audio files: MP3, AAC (not most DRM audio)
Image & Photo files: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
General data
Width (mm): 121
Height (mm): 174.3
Depth (mm): 9.8
Weight (g): 286
Audio Output: 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack (for headphones, etc)
Supplied accessories
Soft cover: Pouch
USB Cable: YES
Quick Start guide: YES
eBook Library software: YES
Recommended Minimum System Requirements
Operating System : Microsoft® Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit) or Microsoft® Windows® XP (32-bit only), MAC OS® X 10.4.9 or later
Processor: 800 MHz Intel® Celeron® class processor or better
RAM: 128 MB minimum, or 512 MB minimum for Windows Vista®
Hard Drive: 20 MB Minimum available Hard Drive space
Optical Drive: Capable of reading CD-ROM
USB Port: USB 2.0 high speed
Internet Connection: Broadband
