Due to the fact that e-book readers are the things that are not-so-distant future, might bring about the demise of paperbacks and hardcovers, but unfortunately they’re quite far from turning mainstream at least for the time being. However, the future of this family of devices is most likely a very bright one and this is why the Taiwanese has just announced the development of a very interesting addition to this concept, namely a reader fitted with a 6-inch touch screen. Pretty much as you might have expected, the most important selling point the EB-100 is the 6-inch E-Link display, which offers a total viewing surface of 122 x 99 mm. Furthermore, the screen can attain a maximum resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, 170 dpi and 4 grayscale levels.

This reader is supposed to work with a fairly large number of e-book formats, including here TXT, PDF, RTF and HTML/CHM, but it can also be used for displaying photos in JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG formats. Moreover, the device can also double as a media player (at least to some extent), since it’s capable of playing MP3 and AAC files and offers support for several languages, including here English, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and French. So, what do you think of this gadget guys? Do these have a future?