The digireader is a 6” eINK e-reader that is probably the most user friendly e-reader on the market. Why? The digireader comes with a simple user interface and two main features:

1. Online shop

A preloaded shop for easy purchase of e-Books and you download them directly on to the digireader.

2. Support for menca digicard

This is a preloaded e-Book card which you can buy in a normal bookstore and is easily placed on the backside of the digireader. You start reading by one touch on the title!

Digireader concept

The menca card can hold one to several books depending on the length of the book or a series of books. The size of the menca card is perfect to fit the cover artwork of any typical book.  Currently you can get menca cards with eBooks and audiobooks.

The concept is that each book is an exchangeable card, menca card, which is placed on the backside and read by the digireader. If you are not comfortable with e-Book files not being easily shared, don’t like login and passwords, and not too interested in leaving your credit card details on the Internet, then menca card is your solution for a successful e-reader experience. It’s a unique solution! And the best part is that you don’t have to chose, you can download e-Books directly or you can buy the menca cards. Both features in one device, the digireader!

 

 

Digireader in short:

• Touch based 6” E Ink display
• Preloaded online shop
• Menca card support (eBook and audio support)
• Memory 4GB (approx. 3000 eBooks)
• Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, USB.2.0, microSD card,
  FM-sender
• Bookmark function
• Write notes and highlight sections in the book
• Speaker
• 3,5mm audio jack
• Rechargeable Lithium-Polymer battery (8000 pages or approx
  one month without wifi)
• Accessories: AC adapter, USB cable, manual
• Weight: 200g

 

 

 

 

 

User interface

The user interface is simple in black/white on the E Ink display.

The menca card

E-Pub, PDF, MP3 and/or WMA audio files are stored on the menca card memory chip. The chips are molded into small plastic cards, menca card, nearly the size of a credit card. The placement and release of the menca card is especially innovative (patent pending). The card sticks into the player's surface by magnets. Inside the card there is a small metal plate that makes the card stick magnetically to the player by small magnets embedded in the player casing. It is released by pressing the card down near to its cut-off corner.

The card is made small, yet kept big enough to offer a reasonably large surface to display high quality graphics, such as book covers, albums, movies, etc. It has a certain weight due to its metal core, making it feel more valuable than plastic. The cards are desirable physical objects, making them easy and attractive to collect, share, trade and resell.

Buttons

The interface is made as simple and minimalistic as possible to make this a product for everyone. The digireader’s display is touch-based and most interactions are done on the display itself by just pushing the icons. The main physical buttons are On/Off, Homescreen, Back, Menu and Volume up/down.

The User

The ideal was to create a product for people that like stories. And most people do; old, young, big handed, blind, smart and slow. For this reason should the product be simple to use for ALL, not just modern computer savvy people.

We have worked with interaction and graphical user interface, size, ergonomics, buttons, in order to make the experience as simple as opening a book. And switching between books should be the easiest thing in the world, and so it has become.