Spring Design Alex eReader

From Engadget coverage at

• http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-39/
• http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/spring-design-alex-hands-on/

Another eReader provider partners with Barnes & Noble on the content front, this time it's Spring Design with their "Alex" eReader which apparently "inspired" the B&N Nook design - the parallels are obvious.

I'm not sold on these combined LCD-interactive-panel and E-Ink-reading-panel designs, but Engadget seem to like it, claiming in their hands-on that it is very slim and responds quickly. 

Watching one screen scroll rapidly though content and the other one periodically refreshing and giving you a "snapshot" of where the page was scrolled when it could be refreshed just re-inforces my doubts....but if it works for you, then go for it.