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Technology company develop $20 e-reader
21 Jul 2010
A $20 e-reader has been developed, with the aim of taking the technology to some of the world's poorest countries.
The Humane Reader stores books so they can be read on a TV screen. It stores up to 500 books "which could solve many problems about the distribution of information", the TechEye blog says. The company explained that televisions are far more common in the developing countries than computers or internet connections.
TechEye says:
"The basic unit can be produced for less than $20 in mass quantities. Thus for less than the cost of a single textbook the Reader can provide the equivalent of a five thousand book library."
Wikipedia is the first content provided for use with the Humane Reader.
Read more at The Bookseller.
