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Specs of Bookeen Cybook E-Ink reader
Because we all are just dying for Bookeen to hurry up and deliver us a full-fledged E-Ink based e-reader, we can't help but mention a couple of specs that were leaked to us through MobileReader Hadrien. The new Cybook by Bookeen will have pretty much the same hardware specs like eREAD's STAReBOOK reader, and just like the STAReBOOK, it'll be conveniently light-weight (the STAReBOOk weighs only 176g vs. the Sony Reader with 250g).
If Bookeen's engineers did their job right, they'll surprise us with a very capable software. Current rumor has it that the Cybook will support Open eBook, PDF, HTML, RTF, at least one format with DRM (perhaps most likely Mobipocket (see Nat's reply)), and MP3. Other formats may also be possible. The rumored launch is summer 2007 at a price of around 350 Euro and US$350 in Europe and the US, respectively. We'll try everything to squeeze out some more information from Bookeen for you. Edit: Some additional info found via this French blog:
Related: Picture of New Bookeen Cybook |
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I expect it will support Mobi -- that's the format they sell in their store, so it would make sense....
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And Mobipocket is also a french company ;-)
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This sounds very good. I had (and still have) one of the original Bookeen Cybook machines. Their approach was to give you lots of different eBook readers on the machine, and let you choose which one you wished to use. The original Cybook came with "BooReader" (no, I'd never heard of it either!), MobiPocket, uBook (my all-time favourite bookreader), and an excellent PDF viewer, all on a machine running Windows CE. The only real down-side was poor battery life - if you turned the screen brightness down to the bare minimum and read books from internal memory, rather than the CF card, you could scrape about 4h reading time out of the machine.
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Yeah, Hadrien, I just saw that on the thread about the NUUT reader too. (I'm afraid I didn't put much store in the original release, seeing as how these things always seem to be delayed so)
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digital ink on eInk?
A question for the MobileRead eInk experts: In your opinion are any of the current crop of eReaders able to capture digital ink from a stylus sufficiently well that they are useful for taking hand-written notes? Last I heard, slow screen refresh rates created enough delay that the handwriting/drawing experience wasn't great.
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