One of our favorite tech blogsw, Gizmodo, is reporting that Sony has a new e-book heading to market. It’s still a black and white display, so for now that means it’s perfect for manga and prose but not quite ready for Marvel and DC’s product, but hey - kids don’t read that fancy colored up stuff anyhow. There’s no price announced as of yet, and the thing will be DRM-crippled, but I’m sure some enterprising hackers will take care of that quickly enough should the gadget prove popular.

To give you an idea of just how good this display looks… I walked up to the counter, looked at the text on the screen and asked, “So when will you have working units to play with?” The reply: “This is a working reader.” I mistakenly though the text on the screen was some kind of plastic overlay—that’s how ink-like it looked. Then the PR rep increased the text size, searched through the table of contents and showed me some Manga comics. It is the first e-reader that seemed like I could sit down and spend hours on without experiencing eye strain.

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