The Freewrite is a singular purpose E Ink typewriter that is hoping to be an author’s best friend. It has a mechanical keyboard and WIFI that allows you to send over your novellas and e-books to Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive and a number of other cloud storage systems.If you are travelling or outside of a wireless internet area there is plenty internal storage to house your digital content.
Initially the Freewrite was named the Hemingwrite when it first initiated a crowdfunding campaign in 2014. It took the company several years to work out the kinks in the various prototypes and it has been available for less than a year. It weighs four pounds, so it is comparable to the weight of modern laptops.
I like the fact that it supports USB-C which is quickly becoming the standard and that it has an SD card for more internal storage. It costs $499, so it will not break the bank but it is kinda expensive for what it is.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
