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November 26th, 2007

Word Gear e-reader writeup—and Tim O’Reilly on the iPhone for e-booking

By David Rothman

wordgear_ladysmall While E Ink is in the spotlight now because of the Kindle, the LCD is hardly dead, and in fact, that’s the technology used for the five-inch screen of Panasonic’s new Word Gear machine—seen here before. A MobileReader has gotten his hands on a review unit.

Meanwhile in yet other hardware news, Tim O’Reilly says he prefers the iPhone, over the Kindle, as an e-book reader,even though he hopes the latter will help e-bookdom.

Related: Engadget on WordGear–expected to go for $350. Res is reportedly 1,024 x 600.

(Thanks to Mike Cane, who passes on this cheery news about the WordGear: “You will howl over the DRM.  It physically moves the book from desktop to the device, ensuring there is just one copy at any time!  When done on the device, it moves back to the PC.”)

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