E-books have been touted for years as the next big thing in literature and technology, but they’ve never caught on with the reading public in a big way. Later this year, though, Sony will attempt to succeed where others have failed with a new generation of electronic readers featuring a high-tech screen utilizing tiny “microcapsules… that look far more like ordinary paper than a liquid crystal display… The E Ink technology also conserves batteries because current is used only when pixels need to change their color — between virtual page turns, the Reader consumes no current at all.”