Black Friday deals: Got any e-book ones to report? $137 LCD e-reader at New Egg
Here’s a start. Go for it—while keeping in mind some eBabel-related caveats and other warnings from Slate: old news to TeleRead community members.
For now, I’m intrigued by New Egg’s $137 deal for an Aluratek Librie reader, a $63 discount (excludes a $10 AC charger). The Amazon price is $169.99.
The screen uses LCD technology (no backlighting in this case, I suspect), and one review at New Egg gives it a four out of five stars. Any overlaps with the LCD-based JetBook? The Aluratek’s supported e-book formats are PDF, TXT, FB2, EPUB, MOBI, PRC and RTF. Not sure if this can read DRMed books. My guess is, “No.” Update, 12:01 p.m.: I’m very pleased to be wrong—the Aluratek reads Adobe-DRMed books (thanks, eBook Reader).
Anyone tried the Aluratek e-reader? is it what it’s cracked up to be? In person, how good is the text-background contrast?
Music-to-Read-By Department: The Aluratek e-reader will play MP3s. Also of possible interest: An Internet radio made by Aluratek and sold by Amazon for $79.99. Illustration is from a Tiger ad ($102.99 today).
Update by Chris Meadows: Fictionwise’s 45%-off Black Friday sale started on the 24th. On Fictionwise, multiformat books are 45% off, and DRM’d books offer a 45% store-credit rebate across the board. On eReader, all books provide a 45% store-credit rebate.
Related: YouTube video ballyhooing the Aluratek e-reader.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
I contacted support last week at Aluratek and they kindly informed me that the Libre works with Adobe Digital Editions for DRM’d ePub and PDF ebooks.
Like the Jetbook, I think it is based on the Chinese ebook reader that goes by the intriguing name of Dr. Yi.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
The Libre is the same model eReader as the JetBook Lite. While the Aluratek version just came out, any JetBook Lite reviews would be able to tell you if it’s a quality eReader.
Still, it’s a pretty good deal. The JetBook Lite runs for $149 and this is being sold for $12 cheaper, plus the Libre comes with 100 free eBooks on SD card.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Fictionwise is running a week-long 45%-off-or-rebate sale. I figured it was important enough that I went ahead and added it as an update to the article, too.