This dual-screen manga ebook is so book-like you can’t load new content

Japanese company Progress Technologies has launched a Kickstarter for manga lovers: a

dual-screen E Ink digital reader that combines all 18 episodes of Fist of the North Star. The catch? That’s the only content it comes with. You can’t download anything else. Called the eOneBook, the digital reader has a pair of 7.55-inch E Ink screens (at 300 PPI) and comes in a case that looks like an actual paperback manga. The designers opted for the power to come from three AAA batteries, saying the goal is to make it feel and look like a real book in as many ways as possible. “When connecting a cable to charge,” the Kickstarter page says, “you can't avoid feeling it like an electronic device.” To that end, there are other ways the eOneBook feels like an actual book: there’s no Wi-Fi, no ports, no bookmark feature (it’s supposed to remember your last page read, but if you skip around for some reason, good luck!), and no ability to download any content other than the series the eOneBook comes with. These are all things the company is saying are pluses, which, I don’t know, could be for hardcore manga fans who want the authenticity of an actual book without having the series take up an entire bookshelf? Help me out, manga fans!                                                                                             https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/27/16374118/eonebook-manga-digital-reader-progress-technologies-kickstarter