Ebook readers have been the star of this year's CES, but don't tell 3D TV, which has been trying to steal the limelight. It seems ebook innovations are arriving thick and fast from companies keen to see our bookshelves sit dusty and unloved in the corner. The Que reader, from a British company called Plastic Logic, caught our eye though, mainly because one of the company's employees brought us one to see at the CNET live stage.
What we liked about the Que was that it uses a touchscreen interface to help you navigate around your books. This means the machine itself is sleek, and totally free of any buttons. There are downsides with the touchscreen, however: we noticed that it wasn't quite as responsive as we might like, which could be a problem when you're using it every day.
Extra features though, such as syncing with your Outlook calendar and (at some point in the future) accessing your email on the device, helped convince us that this is a super little product. Irritatingly, it's not cheap, starting at $649 (£400) for the basic, 4GB model, and jumping to $799 (£495) for a version with 3G mobile data and 8GB of storage.
Despite its UK roots -- Plastic Logic is a spin-off of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory -- the Que is currently only available in the US. A European launch is promised in the summer. You can be sure we'll have more then.
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