iRiver Story eBook Reader

Overview

The iRiver Story is a new ebook reader on the market from a South Korean company called iriver, which is most known for their MP3 players and networking devices.

Initially available in Asian markets, the Story is expanding and is now available in Europe and even the US. It sells for a competitive £179 from Amazon UK. In the US you can buy an iRiver Story from Amazon.com, but it currently costs around $330. Hopefully they'll drop the price down below $300 in the near future so the Story can be a legitimate competitor in the States.

Preliminary Details

The iRiver Story is a 6-inch ebook reader that many would consider a "Kindle clone". It looks a lot like a Kindle and shares many of its features, most notably the white design and QWERTY keyboard.

iRiver Story Comic Viewer

It measures 203.5 x 127 x 9.4 mm (8" x 5" x .4") and weighs 284 grams (10 ounces). Its pixel resolution is 800 x 600, with 8 levels of greyscale.

The iRiver Story supports Adobe DRM for PDF and EPUB ebooks. It also supports office documents such as DOC, PPT, and XLS. For images, comics, and graphic novels it supports ZIP, JPG, BMP, and GIF.

The Story has built-in speakers and a headphone jack for listening to music and audiobooks. Additionally, it has a voice recorder for recording notes, lectures, etc.

It has 2GB of internal memory, enough for about 1500 ebooks and documents, and has an SD card slot with support up to 32GB.

Like most E Ink ebook readers, the Story has an estimated battery-life of around 7,000 page-turns.

Some additional features include note-taking, editing text, running searches, portrait and landscape modes, increasing text size, and making personal schedules with calendar and diary features.

Because it's so new, there's not a lot of information on it yet (in English, anyway), but you can check out this review by Register Hardware for a little more insight about the Story and how it works.