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Kaleido Color E-Reader Pocketbook Go
Take a look at this color E Ink e-reader - the Kaleido pocketbook:
Some readers might be thinking about Stanislaw Lem's opton from Return from the Stars.
The books were crystals with recorded contents. They can be read the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it.
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