IRIVER STORY

Screen size: 6-inch
Resolution: 800 x 600
Dimensions: 127 x 203.5 x 9.4mm
Weight: 284g

With its elegant matte white case, the Story is an appealing homage to the Kindle. In addition to its built-in 2GB storage, Story has an SD card slot that supports up to 32GB external storage, meaning you can carry over 25,000 books. The Story also has a built-in speaker, voice recorder, 3.5mm headphone socket, and calendar and memo features. Besides using the formats that other e-book readers support, such as ePub, TXT, MS Office and PDF, Story can read and display JPEG images in a zip file, which makes it ideal for reading comic books.

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