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Reading books is not my strong suit. However, I love audio books and now a new ebook is tempting me. The iRex offers features that others do not – not even the Amazon Kindle.

There are three versions of the iRex but I am most interested in the 1000SW. The 1000SW has a touch screen so if you have read my blog for any time you know that I lover touch screens. PDF files and Microsoft Office documents are supported which is another huge plus in my books (no pun intended). It even gets better – the PDF and Office files can be edited right on the iRex.

Documents and e-books can be downloaded easily with the addition of 3G and WiFi connectivity. Reading what you download is also easy on the eyes. The e-ink display is 10.2 inches allowing full (letter) size pages to be viewed.

You may be asking “what is e-ink”? Well, not to get too technical, white positively charged particles and black negatively charged particles suspended in a clear fluid switch places forming words. It’s not your normal paper but I guess if you can see images and words on it the name electronic paper makes sense. Through a special process the electronic paper is turned into a film that works as the screens of e-books or e-readers.

Due to e-ink the battery life on an e-book is longer than on devices such as laptops because the need for power is so low.

I can hear my husband saying “just what you need is another electronic gadget”.