BeBook e-book reader draws upbeat review from Project Gutenberg News
By Paul Biba
The BeBook reader has drawn a favorable review from Mike Cook at Project Gutenberg News. Here is an excerpt:
The Reading Experience / Conclusion
As the BeBook uses the super bright Vizplex E-Ink screen, the reading experience is naturally very good. When I place it next to my PRS-500, it’s like night and day. Navigation is very straight forward and the folder/sub folder catalogue system makes storing and navigating through many books very easy.
I’m still amazed at how many file formats are supported. Being able to load up a Windows .CHM help file is very cool and MOBI support will be a huge plus to many users who have already spent considerable money on eBooks already. The usability and support of PDF is very good, which is especially useful if you, like me, download a lot of those PDF manuals from the internet – Now I can read those TEI Guidelines without having to convert.
The BeBook is by no means perfect. Support for some of the eBook formats is not yet complete. For example; ePub books are supported but at this time they don’t seem to implement any CSS formatting. Not a real problem and hopefully they will implement more of the ePub specifications soon.
On the whole I am very impressed with the BeBook. Support for Mobipocket DRM and a multitude of other files format will make this a great option for many people.
According to the news report you can get the BeBook reader here:
Buy the BeBook eBook Reader from the Official site
myBeBook.com available for €329.95 EURO.
Where to Buy the BeBook eBook Reader Online in the UKAmazon.co.uk available for £229.99
Pixmania.co.uk available for £249
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