THE SKINNY: Taiwan-based Netronix, which is part-owned by e-ink display manufacturer PVI, has six eBooks listed through its product site, including a five-inch electronic version, a six-inch electronic version and four six-inch wireless versions. It also announced the six-inch EB-100 and 9.5-inch EB-300 in March 2008, but since then, American and international tech bloggers have had trouble nailing down both their availability in North America and MSRP.

SPECS: Netronix's EB-100 readers operate on Linux 2.6 (all of Netronix's EB readers do, except for the EB-300, EB-600 Swiftie and EB-611 models, which operate on WinCE 5.0). Some models enable touch-screen, 802.11g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G wireless connection, and offer between 8,000 and 16,000 page turns' worth of battery life. The EB-100 itself offers 800 x 600 pixel resolution with 170 dpi and four levels of grayscale. Storage is an SD card expandable up to 4 GB, and SDRAM is 32 MB. Memory size is 128 MB NAND type Flash.