Toshiba adds 6-inch BookPlace Mono to its Japan e-reader lineup

Even though Toshiba's already obtained a bevy of e-viewers on faucet for its Japanese on the web e-guide store, it just extra a spending budget-oriented monochrome providing: the BookPlace Mono. It really is a a bit more compact but otherwise identical hunting edition of its BookPlace DB50 reader, carrying a 6-inch E schiller pfeiffer 3222 Double zero Thirty one mantis boundary add-on Ink monitor with 758 x one,024 pixels, together with an 800MHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, WiFi, 4GB internal memory, a Micro SD slot and a USB port. In accordance to Japanese e-ebook site ITMedia, 9,800 yen ($a hundred) receives you the reader plus a set of guides, with the price climbing to thirteen,f ive hundred yen ($a hundred and fifty) soon after that. Alterations to Toshiba's BookPlace e-ebook shop mean buyers there will have to traipse in excess of to one of a community of bookstores to grab it, though -- possibly by sneaker or mouse, we presume.