iRex intro’s the iLiad Book Edition, touchscreen e-book reader

iRex has just announced a new and soon-to-be-available e-book reader, the iLiad Book Edition and with it comes some unique features. The iLiad notably offers an 8.1-inch XGA touchscreen-capable display. Other features include 256MB of flash memory, a 3.5mm output, USB connectivity, support for MMC and CF memory cards and the ability to read Mobipocket, PDF, HTML, TXT, JPG, BMP, and PNG files. The iLiad is powered by a 400MHz XScale CPU with 64MB of RAM.

The iLiad Book Edition is scheduled to go on sale Friday May 9 and retail for €499 (about $770 US), but will only be available in the European market.