NUUT intros NP-601 e-book reader with Vizplex display

Those curious to see just how much E Ink Corp.'s new and improved Vizplex display enhances the e-reading experience now have an actual e-book reader they can get their hands on, although they'll have to find a way to get one out of South Korea. Apart from that new 6-inch, 600 x 800 display (which promises twice the refresh speed and 20% better brightness than previous models), NUUT's NP-601 e-book reader is a fairly standard affair, with 512MB of internal memory, an SD card slot for expansion, and a headphone jack to take advantage of some of its (unspecified) non-reading functions. Look for this one to set you back about $300.

[Via MobileRead]

[Dubb @ Jun 14th 2007 11:24AM]

Can someone make one of these for $150? Please...

[L. Cyphre @ Jun 14th 2007 11:59AM]

I hope someone finally makes a color version and cuts the prices of the grayscale ones.

[EDomain @ Jun 14th 2007 11:29AM]

I like.... now we need them in the U.S., and we need actual books for it.

[Kunikos @ Jun 14th 2007 6:25PM]

Project Gutenberg should give you a resource for free texts on the internet.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[ScreamingSkull @ Jun 14th 2007 12:05PM]

I wonder what the battery life on this thing is..

[TVGenius @ Jun 14th 2007 12:39PM]

If it's e-ink, and all you're doing is reading without any backlighting or anything weird, I'd think it should be on par with the Sony reader which gets about 7,500 pages on a charge.

[paul34 @ Jun 14th 2007 2:10PM]

Wouldn't backlighting kind of defeat the purpose of e-book readers? I thought the purpose was a true electronic alternative to paper - one that could be just as comfortably viewed as real print (which has no backlighting, of course...).

[Boynamedsue @ Jun 14th 2007 3:26PM]

yeah. i have the sony reader (i broke my boycott on sony for the device) and backlighting it would defeat the purpose. its easy on the eyes. if you need light, then do it the normal way.