Starting today, two models of the Pocket e-book reader will be available in the US market courtesy of Brain Plaza International. The two models are the Pocketbook 301+ and the Pocketbook 360° which will be available for sale as well at the PocketBookreader site. The Pocketbooks 301+ features a 6” Vizplex display and a 512MB of internal memory which is expandable up to 32GB with a SD memory card. It runs on a Linux platform and supports majority of e-book formats plus MP3 music playback. It retails for $275.

The Pocketbook 360° on the other hand is a new model and features a 5” display with G-sensor that allows automatic orientation of pages in portal or landscape modes. It comes in black and ivory colors with a hard protective shell that should give it some flare. It retails for $239.99.

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Unlike the Intel Reader, these readers from Dulin’s Books are just readers. The PocketBook 301+ and PocketBook 360 are really rebranded readers with 400 MHz Samsung processors, 512MB flash storage, an expandable microSD slot, and support for six languages.

The Pocketbook 360 has a 5-inch display, plus an accleromerter for changing the orientation of the page. The 301+ has MP3 support with built-in speaker and a 6-inch display, plus “some expanded media playback and game options”. Both readers will be available soon with the 301+ at $275 and the 360 at $240.

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As soon as I saw the words “Intel Reader”, I couldn’t help but think: “not another reader”. However, Intel’s Reader is not just made to store book materials, it will read to you from a book.

All you need to do is use the reader to take a picture of the book, and it will use its text-scanning and text-to-speech engine to read the words on the page. This will be very helpful for the blind and others with reading-debilitating conditions. This reader will also play MP3s, and will turn your photographed books into MP3s as well.

There is a video of it after the jump for more of its groundbreaking features, but this device will cost you. How much? Try about $1,499.

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This isn’t the first time we reported on Bridgestone’s flexible e-paper, and the company has now developed the world’s first flexible e-book reader. This prototype has 10.7 inch screen, and is 5.8 mm thick. It can display color, by the way, and the company plans to test it out on consumers by spring of next year.

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It does seem like this new app for iPhones can relate well to the phrase, “Second Time is a Charm”. At least that is the story of this app called the Eucalyptus which was initially rejected due to some issues surrounding the type of materials that users could get once installed.

The e-book reader for the iPhone and iPod touch was rejected because a person could get sexually oriented books like the Kama Sutra, even though the book is in the public domain and freely available on the web.

However, it seems that after the developers have explained their part on the confusion surrounding this app, Apple was convinced of the actual intent of the app and really had no malicious intent involved. After showing the rebuilt version, Apple representatives finally gave the go signal for the app, setting the lines straight as far as what the app is really all about.

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