Solar e-reader KDDI biblio leaf SPO2 out in Japan only on Christmas day

What a thoughtful Christmas gift! For folks in Japan that is, for the rest of the world’s green-loving book worms, maybe a birthday gift. Japan is launching the KDDI biblio leaf SPO2 e-reader tomorrow, on Christmas Day. A few of the e-reader features are a 6-inch E Ink display, a microSD expansion slot, a stylus and in-built 3G. The device has a battery life of up to 13,000 pages thanks to the small solar panel located on its bottom right. So if you are located in one of the hotter regions of the globe, the more you sit and bask in the sun for a perfect tan, the more enlightened you can be by reading. The e-reader uses the LISMO Book store and currently provides 20,000 titles which the company explains will increase by five times by the year 2012.

Price of this little wonder is approximately $180 with 3G prices ranging from $6.28 per month for data on a two-year contract, or $19 without… again if Japan is where you are at.
[Engadget]