Review: MiBook is cheap, colorful e-book reader

December 4th, 2008 By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer Review: MiBook is cheap, colorful e-book reader (AP)

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The MiBook e-book reader from Photoco Inc. shows "cookbooks" of instructional video clips, Thursday Dec. 4, 2008, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

(AP) -- Electronic books are the persistent wallflowers of the gadget world. Consumers have snubbed them again and again in favor of a 500-year-old technology: ink printed on paper.



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  • earls - Dec 05, 2008
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    Yep, simply going to have to wait for the future for a device that melds the mibook and the kindle. I would buy neither at this point for the very specific cons mentioned above (for both).
  • gopher65 - Dec 05, 2008
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    Yup. I'm been wanting to purchase an e-Book reader for years, but none of the ones on the market - and none of the ones in development - meet my minimum requirements. I think that I'm going to be waiting for a while yet:(.

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