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Sony Librie EBR-1000EP

Sony supplies the Librie EBR-1000EP, an ebook display device, to the public. The 1000EP possesses the following specifications.

• 6-inch electronic paper display with E Ink technology
• Super Video Graphics Array (800 by 600 dots)
• 170 dots per inch
• 300 grams with case and batteries (190 grams without)
• 126 millimeterss by 190 millimeters by 13 millimeters
• Motorola Dragonball central processing unit
• Sony Linux OS
• 10MB storage
• Memory Stick slot
• USB 2.0 port
• Headphones jack
• Monaural speaker

The unit was designed to be about the same weight as the average book on the Japanese market. The E ink technology is a monochrome, (4 level greyscale) display device which changes orientations of microballs which are white on one side and black on the other.

There is a tiny qwerty keyboard at the bottom of the display, permiting a limited form of marginalia. Content will be available on a subscription basis only, and the price of the unit is comparable to that of some PDA s. Battery life is also comparable to that of many PDAs because while the microballs do not require any power once they are set to show a specific page, the Motorola Dragonball CPU requires constant power, and read an write operations between the storage and the memory stick also require power.

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