Acer has been showing off its latest ebook reader. LumiRead is DLNA compliant and can share contents like eBooks and audio-books.

The outfit has signed agreements with Barnes&Noble, and has access to a million titles in its eBooks store. There is also Libri.de, a Germany's leading Internet book retailer offering over 4 Million titles. French and Italian readers will be able shortly to read books in their languages, thanks to other agreements that are almost ready to be formalized.

The hardware comes with a 6-inch display, it’s only few millimeters thick and permits to carry an entire library of up to 1,500 books in just a handful of grams. There is a non-glare, no backlit e-Ink display, it delivers a paper-like reading experience, even under bright sunlight, which is more than the iPad can manage. It has 2GB flash memory and can store a thousand of books and its capacity can be easily expanded just by adding a MicroSD card.

There is also a useful ISBN scanner allows to scan ISBN codes so you can create your own wish-list and search on supported online libraries and book stores. It comes with a QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to browse the web and find and share information on books. The auto-layout automatically adjusts the content to offer the best reading experience according to the format. It supports various formats, multiplying users choices, and most popular DRM (Adobe and OMA2.0).

It looks jolly nice but there is no word on price. It should be in the shops next year. (Plenty of time for me to upload your novel to Rapidshare sub.ed.)