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Big players have attempted as well as unsuccessful to bring out the “textbook replacement” e-reader. Kno won’t be shipping their entrance until Christmas at a earliest, though it’s the serious candidate that’s worth a second look.

Kno’s form cause is radically dual slightly-oversized iPads upon a giant 180-degree hinge. It has dual 14″ stylus-compatible touchscreens, that you can keep separate for the text or multi-screen blueprint, harmonize for the single widescreen display, or overlay behind for a singular inscription.

(I’m guessing you could additionally lay one side prosaic and make use of it with a software keyboard like the cover, but I haven’t seen that configuration advertised — maybe you can’t make the hinge fluid AS WELL AS unbending enough to lift that off.)

Under the hood is the 16GB tough drive as well as an NVidia Tegra 2 processor. You could review it to Microsoft’s scrapped Courier project or the incomparable take on the Toshiba Libretto. The Libretto, though, is the notice pointer; Kno wants to keep their price underneath $1000 (preferably under $900) though Toshiba’s not as big entry is stranded starting at $1100.

That pronounced, it only might work. Kno’s CEO Osman Rashid has raised the lot of try capital income, brokered deals with many of the major text publishers, and already has a single education-market success with textbook-rental service Chegg. He’s been creation the rounds, giving interviews articulate up a product. Your college tyro only might find the Kno in his or her stocking, only in time for Spring division.

Story around Fast Company as well as TechCrunch.