Two new e-book readers: The PocketBook 301 and the PocketBook 360. Both support six languages, have built in Sudoku, chess, sea battle, and solitaire games as well as a picture viewer with a slideshow function, a clock, and calendar. Users can also change the font size or make notes.
A Taiwanese company, Prime View International, plans to pay $215 million to acquire E-Ink, which owns the technology for displaying text in e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.
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Interesting. Not sure if I agree. What works for a one year old might not necessarily be what works for her the rest of her life. But who knows, that's the point, isn't it?