Acer's Lumiread E-Reader Scans Books on Any Shelf to Find Digital Versions

Acer's just announced its Lumiread e-reader hardware, with a neat feature--ISBN scanning for easy e-book finding. From a company like Acer, which dominates the netbook world, this is big news that might even help the e-reader genre survive.

The Lumiread follows the Amazon Kindle 2 design pretty closely, right down to the grayscale e-ink display and the chicklet-style QWERTY keyboard. We know it has Wi-Fi, that a future edition will have 3G, that it has 2GB of memory aboard (good for 1,500...