Here’s a start. Go for it—while keeping in mind some eBabel-related caveats and other warnings from Slate: old news to TeleRead community members.
For now, I’m intrigued by New Egg’s $137 deal for an Aluratek Librie reader, a $63 discount (excludes a $10 AC charger). The Amazon price is $169.99.
The screen uses LCD technology (no backlighting in this case, I suspect), and one review at New Egg gives it a four out of five stars. Any overlaps with the LCD-based JetBook? The Aluratek’s supported e-book formats are PDF, TXT, FB2, EPUB, MOBI, PRC and RTF. Not sure if this can read DRMed books. My guess is, “No.” Update, 12:01 p.m.: I’m very pleased to be wrong—the Aluratek reads Adobe-DRMed books (thanks, eBook Reader).
Anyone tried the Aluratek e-reader? is it what it’s cracked up to be? In person, how good is the text-background contrast?
Music-to-Read-By Department: The Aluratek e-reader will play MP3s. Also of possible interest: An Internet radio made by Aluratek and sold by Amazon for $79.99. Illustration is from a Tiger ad ($102.99 today).
Update by Chris Meadows: Fictionwise’s 45%-off Black Friday sale started on the 24th. On Fictionwise, multiformat books are 45% off, and DRM’d books offer a 45% store-credit rebate across the board. On eReader, all books provide a 45% store-credit rebate.
Related: YouTube video ballyhooing the Aluratek e-reader.
I contacted support last week at Aluratek and they kindly informed me that the Libre works with Adobe Digital Editions for DRM’d ePub and PDF ebooks.
Like the Jetbook, I think it is based on the Chinese ebook reader that goes by the intriguing name of Dr. Yi.
The Libre is the same model eReader as the JetBook Lite. While the Aluratek version just came out, any JetBook Lite reviews would be able to tell you if it’s a quality eReader.
Still, it’s a pretty good deal. The JetBook Lite runs for $149 and this is being sold for $12 cheaper, plus the Libre comes with 100 free eBooks on SD card.
Fictionwise is running a week-long 45%-off-or-rebate sale. I figured it was important enough that I went ahead and added it as an update to the article, too.