And while iPad and Sony reader are yet to make way into the Indian Market, it seems India has come up with its own ebook reader - "Pi"
Read more here
The introductory price comes out to be 10k. You can pre-order it here for 999/-.
And in case you do can you please drop me the review after using it.
My brother bought a kindle long back (been more than a year now!) and ever since then I had been waiting for something like that to launch in India. And now finally the day has come.
But here is a list of my concerns:
- Does not support internet. I think it should support the USB driven net connections.
- Books are not part of the package. Will have to buy them separately. At least a few should have come with it.
- It supports Indian languages but I could not find any regional language book in the site. (May be I missed them)
- Supports an array of formats like EPUB, PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT, MOBI, DOC. So finding ebooks should not be a problem.
- For all those music lovers, it supports a music library of MP3 and you can plug in the earphones while reading.
- Says that battery life is 7 days. Now that is a lot of books for my kind of person!
So now all said and done, I understand the concern of saving trees and hence a paper-less world but a book is still a book. What do you people think? How successful will Pi be?
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