A Bangalore based company named EC Media (International) Pvt. Ltd has managed to bring forth a new E-book reader which is very much similar to that of the popular Amazon Kindle. This Made-in-India device is fully optimized to support as many as 15 different languages along with some good usable aspects and thereby provides many features to revolutionize the way people read books in India. This device can stand as a good alternative to carry large volumes of books while travelling or on the move and can be used to accordingly fit them all within the storage space that it provides to maintain all those useful books in electronic format and also to read them thereon. There is even an online storehouse which has in store many good titles of books from popular publishers and the initial books count for the first phase is estimated to be around 2,00,000 while the same will be eventually expanded to cover more book tittles through every months.

Shouting the slogan 'Stop Reading, Start Winking', the Wink E-book reader or eReader is offered in three different versions each having some unique characteristics and other advanced features. The three variants are named as Wink XLite, Wink XTS and Wink X3G which all serves the same purpose i.e. to read ebooks but has some additional features based on the model selected such as WiFi, 3G and can also be distinguished in terms of the price that each of them will cost.


All the three variants of the Wink eReader comes with some common properties and features such as 400 MHz ARM9 processors, 6-inch display having a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. The Wink XTS has WiFi but no 3G while the Wink X3G has both WiFi and 3G capabilities. They also have a USB 2.0 support, GPRS, 2GB storage capacity which is further expandable upto a maximum of 16GB and can be used to store various documents having the file format of txt, pdf, rtf, doc, html, wolf, chm, fb2, djvu. Additionally, it can also be used to play multimedia files which should be one of the compatible media format such as that of mp3 and aac.



The Wink eReader is a very useful device for frequent travellers and various other people as well to study their favourite books while on the move through its impressive display screen that can be used even in direct sunlight. It is found to be also good in terms of its battery backup and provides sufficient usage duration to comfortably leaf over more than 8K pages. It is also considered a good initiative to go green and save the environment by reducing the use of papers.

Whatever may it be, it is indeed a device which can readily be used by all sections of people to read their favorite books or E-newspapers easily and most efficiently. The price of the device in India is fixed at Rs.7,990/- for Wink XLite, Rs.8,999/- for Wink XTS and Rs.14,990/- for Wink X3G and can be purchased directly from the Online WinkStore or other retail outlets across the country.