It’s been a while when I haven’t write an article. There’s a lot of things to do in school and at home. I found a time to write this article.

Since I have known the digital electronic book readers ever existed, I’ve always wanted to have one. I would like read a lot of electronic books especially those in Portable Document Format (PDF) although I’m not not that bookworm, I need to read some important things and to learn at. I have a collection of free E-books which is I’ve got in the internet, which I read at times, I’d like reading the printed version of a book rather than in the computer and in the outdoors at times. But since ebook readers ever existed, I’ve wanted one as for portability, less space consumption, power ON then read to go and ease in reading  unlike reading in front of a computer where you may be tempted to open other applications which will not let you concentrate on what you are reading or wait a few minutes to fully be ready after switching the power button.

A brief history of E-book from Wikipedia:

Among the earliest general e-books were those in the Gutenberg Project, started by Michael S. Hart in 1971. An early e-book implementation were the desktop prototypes for a proposed notebook computer, the Dynabook, in the 1970s at PARC, which would be a general-purpose portable personal computer, including reading books. Similar ideas were expressed at the same time by Paul Drucker.

  

The first e-book reader that I’ve wanted is the Amazon Kindle, then came a lot of ebooks in the market, then poof the CD-R KING’s 7 inches Multimedia E-Book Reader with a cheap price of Php 3,990.00 which is the cheapest electronic reader I have known so far yet with the specs it is worth it even if haven’t tested it but read some feed backs from the internet. The price will quite exceed your expectations as what others say.

                      

Here are the specifications of the CD-R King 7 inches TFT Multimedia EBook Reader:

• Screen Size: 7 inch TFT, 16:9, 800*480
• Size: 248 (L) x 132 (W) x 11 (H) mm
• Battery: Built-in Polymer battery 2500mAh
• Reading: 10 hours
• Mode of Operation: Button
• Text: TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, FB2,
• Audio: MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC, AAC, WAV, AC3
• Image: JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, support scale photo viewing, support lantern slide
• Video: MKV, AVI, RM, RMVB, MP4, MOV, VOB, DAT, FLV, 3GP, Support H.264 code
• Support: 720P video player
• Flash: 2G
• Card Reader: TF Card, up to 16GB
• With FM radio function
• Interface: USB 2.0 x 1
• Other support time function
• Supports Calendar function
• Supports Firmware upgrade
• Supports Windows SE, Windows ME, WIN2000, XP, Vista, 7 OS

Not bad, you won’t even expect the features for the very low price. By the way the support for OS indicated above means that it can be synced through those Operating Systems and it cannot run those OS by itself. Some added features are its calendar, image, audio, video and FM radio.

                           

Warranty and replacement period:

It has a warranty period of 3 months and a replacement period of 1 week. It also has its own manual: http://www.cdrking.com/downloads/SB-96manual.zip

The product is already available in the CD-R King stores. Come and have an opportunity to have your own multimedia/electronic book reader while the stocks lasts.

Anyone who have bought or used it? Feel free comment/react.