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Tom Swift · 03-13-2010, 08:42 PM

I have not been to the major electronic mall in Shanghai for a while and I was surprised to see the amount of electronic books running on eink. When I came to the entrance, they had the usual stage set up with some usual bad dancing girls wearing hot pants and someone blasting on a microphone. Walking over to the stage, the product they were selling was an ebook reader. It was a Hanvon brand (never hear of it) and it was quite nice. It had a touch-sensitive screen which you could write on and it was quite sharp. Unfortunately, you could not change the default language to English so it was no good for me, and the price was very high. 3580 RMB or US 524$. When I went into the mall, they were everywhere. Different models were available as well for cheaper (saw one for 2100 RMB or US$307) but there were a lot of them for sale all over the place.

When I was there last year, nobody had any idea what I was talking about when I asked about book readers and now they were everywhere. Too bad the price is so steep though.

03-13-2010, 08:42 PM	#1
Tom Swift Addict Posts: 252 Karma: 1232346 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Macau Device: Kindle Oasis (plus lots of older devices)	Was in Shanghai yesterday and ebook readers were everywhere I have not been to the major electronic mall in Shanghai for a while and I was surprised to see the amount of electronic books running on eink. When I came to the entrance, they had the usual stage set up with some usual bad dancing girls wearing hot pants and someone blasting on a microphone. Walking over to the stage, the product they were selling was an ebook reader. It was a Hanvon brand (never hear of it) and it was quite nice. It had a touch-sensitive screen which you could write on and it was quite sharp. Unfortunately, you could not change the default language to English so it was no good for me, and the price was very high. 3580 RMB or US 524$. When I went into the mall, they were everywhere. Different models were available as well for cheaper (saw one for 2100 RMB or US$307) but there were a lot of them for sale all over the place. When I was there last year, nobody had any idea what I was talking about when I asked about book readers and now they were everywhere. Too bad the price is so steep though.