While most people think of Amazon's Kindle range and Sony's Readers when considering e-book readers, coming up quietly on the rails is Bookeen, and their products are gaining a reputation for innovation and quality. This French company were first into the market withelectronic book readers some years before the opposition.
Bookeen were founded in 2003 but it was in 2007 that they came out with the Cybook Gen 3 which used the then new e-ink screen technology. The Cybook Opus is their latest reader, introduced in 2009.
This pocket sized reader can be held in one hand and fits perfectly in any purse, briefcase or pocket! It is the lightest on the market! Over 1,000 books can be stored in its large 1 GB of internal storage memory!The Cybook Opus boasts an impressive 200dpi ePaper screen, which provides a paper like high contrast appearance and ultra-low power consumption on the revolutionary EInk technology. With its accelerometer - screen position can switch from portrait to landscape mode automatically.
The ePaper screen technology requires no power to maintain an image, as long as the Cybooks display the same image, there is no power consumption. This technology drastically reduces power needs. Thus, the Cybooks offer an impressive battery lifetime of 8,000 screen refreshes with a full charged battery. Look at the following table to see how long you can use your Cybook on a full charge.
(* These figures are theoretical, actual battery life may vary upon usage. Please consult "How does the Cybook battery work?" from the FAQ to understand more precisely battery operation)
An optimized form factor
The Cybooks dimensions are very close to the ones of a paperback. As a paperback, the Cybooks can be easily arranged in a hand bag or a purse. The Cybooks are even much thinner (-70%) than a standard paperback and is thus easily transportable.
Thin and light
Thanks to its 1mm thick screen and its tiny Lithium Polymer battery, the Cybooks offer a wide reading surface within an incredibly thin and light design.
With the Cybook Opus, you can access more than 200,000 digital contemporary books from hundreds of publisher sources like Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Harlequin…. These digital books are in AdobeTM secured format (EPUB or PDF), the available catalogue grows very quickly and gain several hundreds titles per month.
The digital book version is most of the time 20 to 50% less expensive than its paper counterpart.
Why buy an e-reader at all? During a recent survey on why people buy e-readers, the largest factor was convenience. Light and easy to hold, great to take on a road-trip or a flight, simple to read in bed without the hassle of a large book, no light problems, saves taking several weighty books with you, but others chose it because of the technology - had to have the latest in-thing! Second highest rating was the ability to instantly buy the latest book. No more waiting for the book to hit the stores, no more lining up to get it. Just press a button and download it instantly. Also highly ranked was the 'green' appeal. Perhaps with the growth of e-readers the forests of the world will be safer. No need to cut down so many trees! Others, particularly the elderly, were impressed with the ability to make the font larger for easier reading. Try doing that on a paper book!
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