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To follow up on my stories about my Sony Reader, here is a new gadget, the Entourage Edge.

And here's the link to the story http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/01/ces-e-readers-with-two-screens/1.

I know this is a competitive market with the Kindle, Sony Reader and the Nook, but really! Let me describe this new device to you and maybe it will make you think of one that is already around, probably very close to you at the moment.

The Entourage Edge a dual book (see picture) from Entourage Systems weighs in at a whopping three pounds! It is part reader part tablet notebook with a 10.1 inch LCD screen on one side where you can email or browse the Web and a 9.7 inch gray scale E ink display on the other side.

This device also has a camera and 4 GB internal memory and runs on Google's Android operating system.


Evidently the screens are connected so you can access a link in an ebook and see the link in the browser screen.

OK so let me get this strait this new ebook has two screens, one that browses the Web just like a laptop. This device looks like a laptop. There is a camera mounted in it just like a laptop. It carries Google so it would be like browsing on a laptop. The sucker weights three pounds: some laptops weigh that much.

By God! This new electronic reader is a crappy laptop, only with an E ink reader on one side.

So for $490 bucks you can buy a crappy laptop that displays books on an E ink reader.

Go out and buy a Sony Reader, you'll save some money and not look like a moron trying to read on what looks like a laptop turned sideways.