The Digital Reader 1000 (DR1000) was an e-Book reading device

E-book reader

An e-book reader, also called an e-book device or e-reader, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals....

 that was produced by iRex

IREX

IREX can mean:*The International Robot Exhibition, a robot trade fair held every two years in Tokyo, Japan*iRex Technologies, the company that produced the iLiad and the iRex Digital Reader 1000 ebook devices...

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Production was ceased in 2010 when iRex filed for bankruptcy. The DR1000 were produced with a 10.2-inch (25.9 cm) e-ink display.

Three different versions exist, or are planned:

• DR1000 (without touchscreen
  Touchscreen
  A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...
  
  )
• DR1000S (with touchscreen)
• DR1000SW (with touchscreen and wifi
  WIFI
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   & Bluetooth
  Bluetooth
  Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
  
   connectivity)

The DR1000 has an internal memory of 128MB

Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context: bytes generally for computer memory; and one million bytes generally for computer storage. The IEEE Standards Board has decided that "Mega will mean 1 000...

, and ships with a 1GB

Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...

 SD card. The manufacturer suggests that this would be sufficient to store up to 1,000 documents or pictures. The S and SW models have touchscreen

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

s compatible with Wacom

Wacom

in Krefeld, Germany. Wacom is a Japanese portmanteau: Wa for "harmony" or "circle", and Komu for "computer". Wacom tablets are notable for their use of a patented cordless, battery-free, and pressure-sensitive stylus or digital pen...

 styluses.

Compatible formats

The iRex DR1000 can display various text formats including PDF, TXT

TXT

TXT or txt may refer to:* SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones* .txt, a filename extension for text files* Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols....

, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 and Mobipocket

Mobipocket

Mobipocket SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces Mobipocket Reader software, an E-Book reader for some PDAs, phones and desktop operating systems....

. In addition, it can display images in JPEG

JPEG

In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

, PNG, GIF

GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....

, TIFF and BMP formats.

Criticism

The DR1000 was originally marketed as able to "last days" on a single battery charge, while users report battery life of 12 hours at most. The statement has since been removed from the IRex product page around the time that version 1.5 of the device firmware was released.

External links

• Irex Digital Reader