Cybook Ebook Reader Review Experience Reading with Style
The Cybook ebook reader offers are some of the best-looking ereaders in the market. Featuring sleek and polished looks with every element in a planned space, the stylish ereaders look enticing. The Cybooks are offered by Bookeen, a company that has pioneered the ereader industry since its early years.
Bookeen offers several advantages for all users of the Cybook reader. The electronic book readers allow users access to a huge content database full of current bestsellers and top-rating classics. The Cybooks are also geared with amazing battery life of up to 8000 page flips.
Cybooks also come with its own software that allows easy ebook downloading. The intuitive interface also makes usage a breeze, while the high-resolution E-ink technology makes reading a great experience.
The Cybooks currently come in two models, namely the Cybook Opus and the Cybook Gen3.
The Cybook Opus is many things at once, but it can best be described as stylish, compact, and feature-rich. Its small size does not prevent it from sporting one of the industry’s most attractive and sleek designs, and this does not take the focus away from the important features expected from an ebook reader.
The Cybook Opus comes with a 5-inch screen with a 200 dpi 600 x 800 resolution. It offers 4 levels of grayscale to render accurate monochrome images as well as text. The E-ink display technology allows readability even in daylight. The Cybook Opus also allows reading in both portrait and landscape modes, which adjusts automatically thanks to the G-sensor motion detection feature. It is equipped with a 32 MB RAM and 1 GB storage via Micro SD cards. It also has a mini USB slave.
This Cybook ereader can support multiple formats, the most common of which are PDF, ePUB, and TXT. Most image formats are also supported. You can, however, avail of firmware upgrade so that Mobipocket format can be supported by the device.
Cybook Gen3 Review – The New Generation of Digital Reading
Another excellent Cybook ebook reader is the Cybook Gen3. This is one of the lucky 10 e book readers that top the industry’s bestselling charts. The sleek black body of the Gen3 houses a 6-inch E-ink screen with 600 x 800 pixel resolution and 4 grayscale levels.
The device uses a high-contrast display so text comes out sharp and clear. Most of the features of the Cybook Opus such as the automatic orientation adjustment, multiple format support, and USB and SD card slots are available in the Gen3 package as well.
The Gen3, however, is a bit bigger but is extra lightweight for a comfortable reading experience. Ebooks can be readily downloaded from Cybook’s digital library. The Cybook e-book reader, however, can also download RSS feeds and online news reports to give you reading variety.
One of the unique features of the Gen3 Cybook ebook reader is that it is also an MP3 player. It comes with a stereo headphones jack so you can listen while you read.
Every Cybook ebook reader also allows users access to more than 55,000 ebooks, most of which are from beloved contemporary writers and publishers such as Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, and many others. Cybook’s ebook sources offer the books at 20 to 30% less than the prices of paper-based books.
