The Elonex eBook is an e-book reader

E-book reader

An e-book reader, also called an e-book device or e-reader, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals....

 from UK company Elonex

Elonex

Elonex is a computer hardware and related IT services company based in Birmingham, UK, that develops eBook Readers, Android eTouch Tablets, and other consumer electronics.The Elonex brand was founded in 1986, in London....

 available since July 2009.

Specifications

Thickness: 9mm

Weight: 180g

Battery life: 8000 pages between charges

Screen: E Ink

E Ink

E Ink is a specific proprietary type of electronic paper manufactured by E Ink Corporation, founded in 1997 based on research started at the MIT Media Lab...

, 5 inch screen

Memory: Micro SD card slot (up to 32gb supported). 512 MB onboard memory.

File support: Supports ebook formats TXT

TXT

TXT or txt may refer to:* SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones* .txt, a filename extension for text files* Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols....

, PDF, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, ePub

EPUB

EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum...

Other: Variable font size, headphone jack, microphone, QWERTY

QWERTY

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...

 keyboard, text-to-speech

Sale

This model was sold with a free 4gb micro SD card for £129.99 toward the end of December 2009 and during January 2010, by Waterstone's

Waterstone's

Waterstone's is a British book specialist established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone that employs around 4,500 staff throughout the United Kingdom and Europe....

 in the UK. Previously, it was sold through Borders for £189 without the micro SD card.

Bugs

Originally, the reader was unable to interpret carriage returns in .htm files; this caused words to run together when displayed on the screen. A firmware update is made available through the Elonex support page that fixes this issue. Another firmware update was due to be made available in the first week of February 2010 "to address some minor unresolved issues and also add additional note taking functionality to the 511EB." This update has been delayed several times, no date is given for the update with note taking facilities

Elonex 500EB 5" Colour eBook Reader

The 500EB has a 5" colour LED screen and will play music and videos as well as books.

Weight: 190g

Battery life: 6 hours when used as ebook

Screen: LED

LEd

LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....

, 5 inch colour screen, 800x480 pixels with anti-glare treatment

Memory: 4 GB onboard memory. SD card slot (up to 16gb supported).

File support: Supports ebook formats TXT

TXT

TXT or txt may refer to:* SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones* .txt, a filename extension for text files* Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols....

, PDF, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, ePub

EPUB

EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum...

 and "DRM copyrighted books from all good retailers"

Other: Variable font size, headphone jack, microphone, QWERTY

QWERTY

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...

keyboard, text-to-speech

Elonex also offers the 621EB with a 6" screen and the 705EB with a 7" screen. Other characteristics including screen resolution are the same as the above.