Most of the readers nowadays reading a book from their computers and it is known already as an eBook (electronic book), because this is so affordable and you can download some eBooks for free or buy on it. When you buy eBooks it is much cheaper than a book.

Right now there’s a lot of portable devices that is substituting to computer for reading an eBook and it is handy. The eBook Reader Portable Devices are now available in the market. Here are the following Portable eBook Reader Devices:

Amazon Kindle

Amazon introduced a new product and they developed which is called the Kindle. Kindle is a portable ebook reader device designed specifically for reading text and ebooks. Kindle combines a paper-like display (167 dpi, 4-level grayscale) with a custom, anti-aliased typeface to achieve remarkable readability. Six text sizes are available, from tiny to huge; all are crisp and readable.

The beveled edges make Kindle easy to pick up off a table is similar to MacBook Air, while the inward-slanting corners help Kindle rest comfortably in the hand and its rear cover is rubberized for gripping and has Kindle’s one real concession to design for design’s sake: molded into the cover are a torrent of glyphs pouring from one corner to another.

The main controls of Kindle are on the front face: a unique scroll/click wheel, several buttons on left and right sides, and a compact keyboard at the bottom.The rubberized scroll wheel is the key to navigating the menus and selecting on-screen text. Think of it like a mouse’s scroll wheel, except it controls a silver block that runs up and down the right-hand side of the display. Spin the wheel up the side of the screen next to whatever object you want to manipulate, then click the wheel. On the back, near the top, are Kindle’s power switch and wireless on/off switch. These oval chrome sliders are reminiscent of an iPod’s “hold” slider and are easily accessible, even when the Kindle is snapped into its book-like leather cover.

Kindle has 256 MB of internal flash memory. About 30% of this is used by Kindle’s software, leaving 180 MB available for books and media. The electronic versions of novels that run 500-600 printed pages are about half to three quarters of a megabyte, so Kindle could easily store 250 to 300 books. Images such as cover art, or section-break pictures would reduce this.

Foxit eSlick

Foxit Software entering now to ebook market world and they introducing eSlick. The unit is said to be around the size “of a medium paperback,” checking in at 0.4-inches think and featuring a 6-inch 800 x 600 resolution display with 4 levels of gradation and the rechargeable battery purportedly gets up to 8,000 page views on a single charge. Both PDF and TXT files are natively supported, and Foxit include a licence of their PDF Creator software so that document that can be printed can be converted for viewing on the eSlick. Audio files are also supported, in MP3 format, and the eSlick has 128MB of internal memory which can be augmented via the included 2GB SD card (up to 4GB cards compatible).

The Foxit eSlick is powered by a Samsung S3C2440 ARM 400MHz processor and runs Linux which has proved to be a relatively reliable platform. There are three colors available that you choose from – white, black and grey.

iRex iLiad

A Dutch Company which is the iRex is competiting to their other rival eReader producer company and they introduced there own eReader which is the iLiad. The iLiad is a tablet-style device with an 8.1 inch electrophoretic screen. The display manages 16 shades of grey and uses the technology patented by E-Ink. This creates a high contrast monochrome image that is completely free from flicker and doesn’t require a backlight. It’s even readable in direct sunlight, and because it has a high resolution of 768×1024 pixels, text looks very smooth and clean.

The front of the device is mostly taken up by the large screen, but there are also a number of buttons to help you navigate the user interface. The most prominent of these is what iRex calls the Flipbar. This is really a very long rocker switch mounted on the left-hand side that you flick back and forth to move through the pages of a book or document. It’s very intuitive to use and makes the device feel just that little bit more like a normal book.

The iLiad can read plain text, PDF and PRC data formats – the latter is used by the popular Mobipocket reader. It can also read HTML, JPG, BMP and PNG formats, so it can display graphics readily.

Samsung Papyrus

Samsung is introducing their very own touchscreen ebook reader which is the Papyrus. The Samsung Papyrus is an A5-sized device and packs a touchscreen that makes use of an included aluminum stylus, along with 512MB of internal memory (with no memory card option) and, of course, a stylish leatherette case with the different color available that you choose from – white, black and a retro sea-foamy green.

This e-book reader has a features includes handy applications: a memo pad, scheduler, calendar, world clock, calculator and contact list like a regular PDA.

Fujitsu Flepia

  
Fujitsu released their first ever colored ebook reader which is the Flepia. It was designed for those who are willing to spend more for a higher quality screen and more usability over other currently available readers. The Fujitsu Flepia features an 8-inch 1024 × 768XGA touchscreen that boasts of showing up to 260,000 colors in high-definition (HD).

  
The device is actually runs with the operating system of Windows CE 5.0 and it is compatible with the MS Office Documents. The Flepia device supports PDF, TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XMDF eBook formats and all image formats. With these device you’ll be able to surf the Web with it, and it has both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in. A standard SD slot allows the device to offer up to 4GB of storage that can store 5000 ebooks.

Ectaco JetBook

Ectaco released their electronic book reading device which is the Jetbook and they put that experience to good use and build their Jetbook. The Jetbook uses a reflexive LCD screen but it doesn’t contain an internal back light. Instead it relies on ambient light reflected from the screen. for its display. The LCD screen of the Jetbook displays sharp and clear text. The JetBook package contains a USB data cable that plugs into an A/C outlet and set of ear buds to use when listening to the built-in MP3 Player.

As you can see in the Jetbook photos there are two page turning buttons on the bottom left corner and a cluster of buttons on the bottom right corner. Along the left front edge is a little slider bar. On the top of the device is a plastic dust cover which, upon opening, reveals a slot for an SD card and a mini-USB port. The USB port is used both for charging and transferring files. Along the bottom edge of the device is a slightly recessed power button and the head set jack. Along the front right edge of the book are 10 buttons number 0-9 and also with letters on each number with ABC being on the two (2) just as with a mobile phone.

The device has 112 megabytes of internal memory with about 60MB free as shipped. There are 47MB of sample books pre-installed on the device which figures about 10 to 12MB for the dictionaries. You can also view the SD card capacity and free space.

Hanlin eReader

With the China-based Jinke firm, which launched a whole line of portable readers, including the particular model you’re about to see as follows, namely the Hanlin eReader with Vizplex. The Hanlin eReader is a relatively simple device which is designed for the exclusive purpose of reading books. As a result, it is very easy to navigate options and browse your library, making use of a number pad. This device used a Vizplex Technology which means it offers a brighter background that the current E-Ink does. The screen of the Hanlin eReader measuring 6 inches in diagonal and delivering a 800 x 600 pixels resolution, as well as support for 4 levels of greyscale.

The Hanlin Ereader has a relatively small storage capacity of only 32MB, although it can have up to 4GB additional storage from an SD memory card. It also comes with a 512MB memory card. It can also store and play audio files, although without an additional storage unit it cannot hold very many audio files at all. It has a very good battery supply, and can go for a about a month with 300 page turns a day before needing recharging.

The Hanlin Ereader supports a very wide variety of digital book formats, supporting PDF, DOC, WOLF, HTML, TXT, CHM, FB2, Djvu. Moreover, the device can also display photos in PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, JPG formats and even supports MP3 playback.

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