Comments on: BeBook shows 5″ reader

By: Felix Torres

Felix Torres — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:21:56 +0000

WIRED seems to know something:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/200-e-book-reader-set-to-make-its-debut/
Under US$200?

By: Alan Wallcraft

Alan Wallcraft — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:53:20 +0000

Fred: the virtually identical 6″ BoBook supports Secure MOBI.
All the “independent” ebook reader vendors are facing uncertainty at present because mobile Adobe Digital Editions (Secure ePub and PDF) is now a viable alternative to Secure MOBI on dedicated reading devices but MobiPocket still requires DRM-exclusivity. What seems likely to happen in the near term is two sets of firmware, one with Adobe and the other with MobiPocket.

By: Fred Kiesche

Fred Kiesche — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:07:59 +0000

Cute! But will it work with “Secure Mobipocket”?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:18:52 +0000

This so reminds me of the old Handera 330.

By: Michael Harris

Michael Harris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:27:53 +0000

I’m generally happy with my Kindle 2, but one of my beefs is the size of the margins when reading books. Some pictures of this book that I have seen show the text going the full width of the screen — no margins.

If you do the math, you’ll see that this 5″ screen would actually show more text per page than the 6″ Amazon screen.

I have found the K2 keyboard to be surprisingly useful, but if portability is your thing you get a smaller screen size and no keyboard without giving up any screen real estate.

By: rjh

rjh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:04:47 +0000

I have the current model, and although it really could be improved in terms of design, it is good enough to get the job done.

So I’m surprised that so few changes to the design are apparent in the 5″ model – the jog wheel can be seen on the edge of the white model, but there don’t appear to be any other changes.

I really hope that this will run OpenInkPot with little work required from the developers; that would make the device well worth getting.

It will also be interesting to see if there is any improvement in the quality and speed of the display (the 6″ screens seem to be of variable quality, with some owners reporting low contrast and speckles).