As frankps sees the world!

Bookeen has just released the Cybook Gen3 Firmware Upgrade Version 1.1 (Build 685). I have just downloaded it, and I have started installing it. Honestly I thought that there would be more improvements: Improvement: new button management (faster and buffered key detection). Improvement: new event management (previous versions could miss events). Improvement: reduced power consumption. Improvement: Table support in Mobipocket files. Bug fix: large covers in PRC files. Bug fix: Asian […] Continue reading →

It’s been a long time since I have been writing about the Cybook and ebook readers in general. I am still the same great fan of these devices, if not bigger. I have read more or less the whole Golden Compass triology on the Cybook, and my eyes are so relaxed. The screen is so much better to read on then a LCD screen. It is truely the closest you can get to paper. My New Year’s Eve resolution was to not print paper for personal reading this year, I haven’t managed that […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I could finally pick up a Cybook at the post office, and today I visited Mobipocket: Product Type : eBook(s) Logon to your account to redownload and view the history of purchased products : http://www.mobipocket.com/en/mymobi/mymobipocket.asp The Da Vinci Code: A Novel : 6.99 USD Eragon : 9.95 USD The Amber Spyglass : 3.99 USD The Golden Compass : 3.99 USD The Subtle Knife : 3.99 USD Eldest : 12.95 USD ——————————— […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I got my hands on a eBook reader, and I got mighty impressed. The Bookeen Cybook ePaper has the perfect size and is therefor easy to carry around. As I work on computers all day long, and have to stare on back lit LCD displays, I have been quite skeptical to eBooks. In fact, if the document I am to read is longer then 2-3 A4 pages, I prefer to print it out. I swear that I could feel my eyes relaxing when I read on the Cybook, it is the closest thing to reading paper that I have [...] […] Continue reading →