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Monday March 24, 2008
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 Look out Sony and Amazon; there's a new e-book reader maker in town. NY-based ECTACO, known for manufacturing handheld translators, is dipping its toes into the electronic reader pool with the jetBook. Announced today, the jetBook is an e-book reader with a built-in MP3 player that comes preloaded with an English dictionary and translating dictionaries. It has a 5-inch, high-resolution TFT display (smaller than both the Sony Reader and Kindle), but weighing a mere 7 ounces (much lighter than the other competitive models).
The jetBook features bookmarks and auto-page-turn functionality, adjustable font type and size, screen rotation support for both portrait and landscape modes, a built-in English dictionary and English to Russian, English to Polish translating dictionaries, and an SD card slot, and it runs on a Li-ion polymer battery. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any details on the device's memory capacity, but the site does encourage downloading free e-books from the Web and onto the device, since the company doesn't offer an e-book store. The ECTACO jetBook sells for $349.95 on www.ectaco.com.
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January 27, 2009 12:35 PM
Don't waste your time with the Ectaco e-book. I made the stupid mistake of doing so and quickly became disenchanted with their "customer (not) service". There are virtually NO BOOKS you can buy for this device. They make you return it within 7 days (with a 6.5% return fee) AND if you try to get questions answered during your trial period, they don't answer phones or emails. Their business model is to sell and charge for return. Nothing but a scam as far as I can tell.