iRex Digital Reader DR1000S
Posted July 25th, 2009 by admin No Comments »
Review iRex extended its electronic book line back in September last year, but it’s taken us more than a couple of weeks to get used to its new DR1000s Digital Reader and understand that this is really a new class of product, rather than an evolution of the smaller readers of the past.
iRex’s Digital Reader
Electronic-ink screens have been pushed into the role of electronic books but, like Amazon, iRex has realised that the real money isn’t in electronic books at all, but in electronic document readers. Executives, or journalists – who have to plough through enormously long documents – will pay handsomely for a device that enables them to easily read, and make notes on, such documents with the minimum of fuss.
Indeed, that’s the market that Amazon’s latest, the Kindle DX, and the iRex DR1000S are aimed. Yet, the DR1000S isn’t exactly comfortable for reading books. At just under 27 x 22cm and a smidge under 12 mm thick, it’s much closer to a clipboard than a paperback, even if it is six hundred quid’s worth of clipboard. Read the rest of this entry »
