It can hold about 10 novels of 200 pages each. The text is plain vanilla with all the visual appeal of a text-only Website but readers can increase the size of the type for better readability and it offers a backlit screen for nighttime use. Graphics aren't encouraged. Coffee-table books aren't threatened. An industry insider said that amounted to about 300 copies.
Technical wonks appreciate practical uses such as word-searching and annotation functions.
Monica readers reportedly like that part too. The general public is still on the sidelines. It fundamentally does not work. Nuvomedia isn't the only contender. There were almost a dozen vendors actively selling or at least promoting their versions of electronic books, most of whom are listed online at eBookNET .