johnnywifi

johnnywifi: #bookeen_cybook_gen3 I purchased a Cybook Gen 3 from Bookeen in February 2008. I have been thoroughly satisfied with it so far - the unit is thin and light, it accepts SD cards which enables me to carry on average around 700 books with me at all times.
Reading comfort is very pleasant - actually much more pleasant than I imagined when purchasing the unit.
I got pretty worried after 4 weeks of use when the screen stayed stuck on one page and would not change pages any longer. I called the company and found out that the battery had simply run out of power... Yes, this little thing had finally run out of fuel after 4 weeks as i had completely forgotten to recharge it. And the big difference with a LCD screen is, when there is no power, the screen stays on, but you cannot change the picture any more. Now I know.
Took it out on vacation this summer which saved me the trouble of carrying 10+ books on the way out and 20+ on the way back. And no charger since the battery life is so long.
I would definitely recommend this to all readers.
Only points of improvement I can see:
- boot time could be faster, more than 5 seconds and it gets frustrating when you want to read on the bus and you do not have a lot of time to do it
- I have not used any of the buttons on the side of the device
- difficult to navigate the library when you have more than 100 books on board Sep 24, 08