{"id":3074,"date":"2009-09-09T10:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2009-09-09T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:40:59","slug":"dual-ebook-reader-from-asus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Dual eBook Reader from Asus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked before about a rumored eBook Reader in Asus&#8217; Eee-line of <a title=\"Another Contender?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2968\" target=\"_self\">products<\/a>. Now we&#8217;ve got an <a title=\"Double Threat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2352555,00.asp\" target=\"_self\">article <\/a>from Mark Hachman at <strong>PCMag.com<\/strong> that starts to confirm the rumor, and adds an exciting new element to the story.<\/p>\n<p>Hachman\u00c2\u00a0writes that\u00c2\u00a0<em>The\u00c2\u00a0Times<\/em> <em>of London<\/em> reported that this thing\u00c2\u00a0is going to have a hinged spine connecting two reading panels, at least one of which will be tricked out for color display. See the picture <a title=\"Double Threat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/image_popup\/0,1871,s=1489&amp;iid=242528,00.asp\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asus is also talking inexpensive and premium versions of the\u00c2\u00a0machine, so this is certainly going to get a lot of speculation going. (Will the dual\u00c2\u00a0screen\u00c2\u00a0be reserved for the premium, or will the economy version fly black and white only, we&#8217;ll see, <em>yah<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Coolest idea yet, read along: one of the screens might be able to serve as a virtual keyboard effectively turning your eBook Reader into a laptop. Too much! That&#8217;s the kind of thinking we need to get this eBook Revolution into high gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked before about a rumored eBook Reader in Asus&#8217; Eee-line of products. Now we&#8217;ve got an article from Mark Hachman at PCMag.com that starts to confirm the rumor, and adds an exciting new element to the story. Hachman\u00c2\u00a0writes that\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0Times of London reported that this thing\u00c2\u00a0is going to have a hinged spine connecting two reading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3074\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}