Energy Book eBook Readers – Energy Book 3050 and 4050 Touch

Energy Sistem, an electronics company based in Spain, recently announced two new ebook readers, the Energy Book 3050 (white) and the Energy Book 4050 Touch (blue).

Both ebook readers feature 5-inch E Ink screens with 8 levels of gray scale. They are basically the same feature-wise, except the Book 4050 has a touchscreen that uses a stylus for on-screen notes and handwriting.

They come with 1000 classic Spanish, English, and French ebooks, which ought to put a dent in the 512 MB of internal memory. But worry not! They come with a 4GB microSD memory card. And both models support Adobe DRM for EPUB and PDF ebooks.

Additional features include:

• 8000 pages per battery charge.
• Supports microSD cards up to 32GB.
• Mini QWERTY keyboard for adding notes, bookmarks, running searches.
• Built-in speakers and microphone; audio recorder.
• Plays MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files.
• Image viewer supports JPEG, TIF, BMP, PNG, and GIF.
• Text formats supported: TXT, HTXT, HTML, PDF, EPUB, and DOC.
• On-screen notes and handwriting compatible with TXT, HTXT, and HTML files (4050).

At the time of this writing, the Energy Book 3050 is selling for €242.10 from Pixmania. The Energy Book 4050 is available for pre-order for €257.76 from the Energy Sistem website and says it will be available on 09-07-2010.