and another ebook reader

[piranha]

in the slowly growing ebook reader field, the dutch "bebook" was a nice contender when it debuted. but it was way over my price limit, so i didn't even stop to drool. now that they've revealed their edition 2 at CEBIT, the price for the first one is right. it doesn't integrate with any specific book seller, but i consider that a feature (cf. amazon's "mothership" attitude, and sony's windows-only "solution").


Specifications:

• Dimensions: 184mm(l)*120mm(w)*10mm(h)


• Weight : 220gr (incl. battery)


• Display: ePaper, 600*800 (6 inch) (E-Ink technology)


• Internal storage: 512MB flash memory


• I/O: 3.5mm audiojack, USB 1.1 Port, SD slot (extendable up to 4GB)


• Power Supply: 3.7V Li-ION battery 950mAh

Features:

• Easy accessible book library menu


• Supported file formats: pdf, mobi (DRM), prc, epub, lit, txt, fb2, doc, html, rtf, djvu, wol, ppt, mbp, chm, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, rar, zip, mp3.


• Built-in menu language support: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Ukraine, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Estonian, Polish


• Change fonttype while reading


• Increase/decrease font size


• Add bookmark to a page


• Zoom page


• Sort library by title, filename, size


• Play mp3 files and audiobooks

U$ 279. that's a whopping U$71 less than my previous top choice, bookeen's cybook gen 3.

they have a large, freely downloadable library of public domain books preformatted to display nicely on the bebook.

and apparently wifi support is coming soon, so they're not dropping support for the first bebook with the announcement of the second one. this link has lots of pictures (many more than the manufacturer's website; figure that).

check it out: http://mybebook.com/index.html

Comments

[cheshyre]

Looks a bit like the Sony menu style.

[I don't have one yet, still waiting for the right one to come around.]
If you're into ebook readers, are you aware of http://www.mobileread.com/ ? Great site for keeping up with the device news, and their wiki provides excellent technical details.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, i know about mobileread; my post from the day before was kvetchinng about the C&D letter amazon sent to them. great site indeed

[selki.livejournal.com]

http://www.teleread.org/ also covers e-book devices, software, and legal wrangling. They're very public-domain / commons / library- friendly.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Drat. I wish I didn't just get a Sony!

sony

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

well, the sony looks very nice to me. :)

(it's not on top of my list because their store is windows-only, and i don't support companies anymore who ignore the rest of us.)

Re: sony

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I got the Sony because unlike the Kindle, the Sony could be hacked to handle Russian encodings. (I'm still ironing out the kinks, though, as Russian books use several encodings, but by preference not the one that Sony can handle). If this thing can handle Russian natively (as it having menus in that language suggests), that'd save me a fair bit of headache.