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Honto Pocket e-Reader Released in Japan

January 4, 2015 By Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments

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Dai Nippon Printing has released their first e-reader called the Honto Pocket. It has been available in Japan for the last few weeks and the company intends on making a number of e-book anthologies available to purchase by the end of January and will be opening up an online bookstore in February.

The Honto Pocket basically has no place in the modern world, it is a throwback to how e-readers were made as cheaply as possible five years ago. This little device has a five inch screen with a resolution of 800 X 600. It does not have a touchscreen, so you will have to navigate around with the D-Pad. It does not have wireless internet access and many bloggers in Japan are saying once books are loaded on it, there is no way to actually delete them. Oh, best of all, it has two AA batteries to power it.

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This e-reader is available at many different bookstores in Japan.  There are a few e-Books that come loaded on it, but the publisher is trying to get people to buy a few anthologies.  You can buy 100 titles by Agatha Christie for ¥74,800 or 43 books featuring detective Hercule Poirot for ¥ 32,800.

In a few months the company will be launching an online bookstore, where you can purchase content to your computer and then plug the e-reader into it to sync over all of the e-books you buy. Not very intuitive.

I would not recommend this e-reader to anyone. You can buy plenty of great devices in Japan such as the Sony, Kindle or Kobo e-readers. They all have WIFI and allow you buy books right on them. The Honto Pocket is certainly budget friendly, but so was the Extaco Jetbook Mini, and that didn’t sell well.

Michael Kozlowski (7742 Posts)

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international events such as IFA, Computex, CES, Book Expo and a myriad of others. If you have any questions about any of his articles, please send Michael Kozlowski an email to michael@goodereader.com

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    One of the things that strikes me about tablet design is how it doesn’t take the ultimate user into consideration. I would think that the beginning of any design project would be ease of use, for tablets it should be how easy is it to hold and use. I say this because this little e-reader, along with the 1st Adam tablet, have addressed that issue brilliantly. I have pretty much given up using my tablets for a touch netbook laptop. I just can’t understand why no one has designed the perfect e-reader or tablet that combines the software, hardware and form factor and would transcend into perfection. I am still hoping that the next Surface would include a similar feature, possibly a hinge mechanism that would combine a stand and hand holding feature.

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