By Paul Biba
The Opus is a 5″ ereader that supports EPUB, among other formats. It has 1G of internal memory along with a microSD slot. List price is $250, but Amazon, through Beach Camera, is selling it for $215.
Thanks to E-Reader-info for the link.
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November 19th, 2009 at 11:52 am
The Cybook Opus has been shipping since July. For several months now Books on Board has been conducting an advertising campaign featuring in the hands of “celebrities.” It has garnered some good reviews, but there are still bugs in the firmware causing lock ups, especially when using an SD card and the auto power off feature. It is more limited than the Gen 3: no dictionary, nowhere near the level of layout customization. The Pocketbook 360 , imo, takes the best of both the opus and the gen3 and combines it with exceedingly dependable firmware
November 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Luqman is right; the Cybook Opus has been available since July and Amazon has had for quite some time. Sounds like a ploy by E-Reader.info to get some sales and traffic to me.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
The price is the news here. The $215 is much cheaper than the prices I’ve seen.
Meanwhile I’ve changed the link since it was an Amazon affiliate link (not involving TeleRead). The link now is just a plain one to the Amazon page for the Opus.
Thanks,
David
November 19th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
$215 is a good price compared to Bookeen’s $350 for US customers, but yeah it’s been that price on Amazon for a least 4-6 weeks now. Buy.com also has it for about $225 with fee shipping.
Actually, check that, Bookeen now sells it for $250–’bout time.
No worries; it’s hard to keep up with these things.