If you are at all like me you consume books quite voraciously. Books, and education in general I believe are part of the key to a successful life and meeting goals. When it comes to small business books have taught me some of the most important lessons and provide me with a lot of motivation.
If you are a fan of Star Trek like me (go on, admit it) you will be quite familiar with the little pads that have replaced the paperback book we know currently. Paper books still exist in the Star Trek universe but for most everyday tasks they use digital computer pads.
I’ve always thought we would eventually get to that stage as well and it is only time before e-Books become really mainstream. I’m just as big a fan of e-Books and digital information as real world books but for a long time there has been an inherent problem with them – you had to be read on a computer or PDA device, or printed on to paper to be read.
I don’t know about you but there is only so much reading I can do from a monitor and even less from a small portable device. You can’t really take an e-Book with you to bed as night time reading before sleep unless you print it out. Printing is not cheap and reading large pieces of paper is not the same as a nice compact book. Finding a good portable way to consume e-Books is definitely a challenge.
Enter The Sony LIBRIé e-Book Reader
Sony hopes that there new device will do for books what the iPod did for music.
The Inquirer: Electronics announced earlier this week the first ever consumer application of an electronic paper display module with Sony’s e-Book reader, the LIBRIé. E Ink says in its press release that the "revolutionary" electronic ink technology offers a "truly paper-like reading experience". What a world we live in when we can accurately simulate reading a piece of paper.
The e-paper display is reflective and apparently not difficult to read in bright sunlight, or in dimly lit environments. The print on screen is viewable from "virtually any angle," says E Ink.
If this device can accurately simulate paper and cause as little eyestrain as a standard paperback novel then I’m really excited. Besides the cool factor, being able to carry around information products and read them on the go would certainly be handy, not to mention how much it will help the digital information products industry, which I currently make money from.