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Unique paperlike display, read even in bright sunlight
Longlife battery, one charge will last 7.000 pageturns!*
Fit your entire bookcase into just 1 BEBOOK
Use it anywhere: at home, vacation, study, work, travel

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Box Contains

BeBook eBook reader
Leather case
USB cable
User manual
Earphone

Product Description

Now book lovers can travel with a library in their pocket! The Bebook e-book lets you store between 1,000 and 4,000 books, newspapers, work documents or audio files in a device the size of a pocket notepad! This e-book is compatible with loads of file formats, including pdf, doc, txt, rtf, html, djvu, chm, fb2, wolf, mp3, png, tiff, gif, jpg and bmp! The Bebook features a display system using electronic ink, so reading is as easy on your eyes as when you're reading a paper format. This device's long battery life allows you to read up to 7,000 pages on a single charge. What's more, you can read the Bebook in the sun, bookmark your pages, choose the size of the text, and display pages vertically or horizontally. Choose this device's audio book mode, and enjoy up to five hours of battery life. The Bebook also includes an SD memory card reader, so you can increase its internal memory to 4 GB. The Bebook comes complete with 100 e-books in English, so you can take a whole library on the road with you!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not market-ready., 21 Jan 2009

By	Field "Frank" (Utrecht, Die Niederlande) - See all my reviews

Not market-ready, direct comparison with Sony's PRS-505

I've been looking for an e-reader device for a long time and finally decided to buy the BeBook e-reader device. Big mistake!

Unboxing the Bebook e-reader revealed a rather flimsy and squeaky device of mediocre build-quality. Audio-jack and SD-slot were certainly not build to last.

Next, I connected the BeBook reader to my PC by USB and loaded a few PDF files onto the machine. However, as there are only 3 zoom-levels it was nearly impossible to read these texts properly. The PDF files consisted of A4 pages with 2 columns of text. As the BeBook e-reader is incapable of doing text reflow, single columns can't be viewed. I was thus stuck with extremely, unreadable, print.

After disconnecting from my PC, I noticed that all e-reader content was gone. I properly undocked the device but for some odd reason all internal memory of the e-reader was erased.
Next, I tried SD-cards. I had several on stock, ranging from Sandisk and Hama to Transcend. In the end only 1 out of 4 was recognized by the BeBook e-reader.

I tried to correct these errors by accessing the BeBook forum and soon discovered that lots of people are experiencing similar problems with this device. Taken together, if you wish to spend hours just to get the simplest of things going on your BeBook device, in that case you'll love this reader. However, if you wish to have a device that is stable and which is usable for reading books: STAY AWAY!
This BeBook reader is simply far from market-ready. Really.

I returned my BeBook reader and bought Sony's PRS-505 e-reader instead. Well, this unit is really light years ahead of BeBook. (No, I'm not affiliated with Sony).
It's really like comparing a 3000 pound Apple iBook with a no-name laptop from some discounter. Sony's metal build quality is rock solid compared to BeBook's flimsy plastic.

BeBook, never again!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good but could be better., 4 Jan 2009

By	shaz17 (England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

First up is the font size. the largest it does is about 12 and it turns the page sideways for this size. This isn't good for people like me with eye sight problems, but all these machines no matter which make it is only goes up to size 12. But to look at the page is just like looking at a real book.

I buy a lot of ebook from fictionwise and I buy their multi format ones, as the bebook will read all the formats they sell. I admit it doesnt read the drm ones, but the drm ones I read on my laptop which is no big deal for me.

Now at the side of Sony's little machine, it seems cheaply made and not as elegant but at least you can get more than one format on it. I also love the Bebook forum, reading some threads on there helped me a lot, like how to change the font size on a pdf before uploading to your machine, as I converted a book to pdf and was shocked at how the writing was so tiny I couldn't read it....lol... so that problem was solved and I re-did it, to the size of 12 font.

The delivery from bitsub was less than 24 hours for me (WOW) I ordered Monday after 2pm and I got it 9.30 next morning. That is some service.

Yes it is like the Hanlin V3, and on the bebook forum it gives you links to the Hanlin forum for tips and tricks too.

I have it constantly on and it doesn't wear the battery down, the turning of the pages do that and it will last for 7,000 page turnings before it may need recharging. I have only had to reset once by pressing a little pin in the reset hole as it froze on a page, no biggie really.

I like it better than Sony reader for the battery alone, as you can buy these from anywhere, any Mobile Phone shop, Argos, Amazon etc. and so much cheaper than the Sony ones and easier to replace.

It is not heavy to carry around fits nice in my bag and it is not heavy for me to hold like a book can be, as I have arthritis this can be a problem at times for me, but no worries with my Bebook.

I couldn't bring myself to give it 5 stars for a few reasons and my main one is the price, I feel they aren't worth the price that any manufacturer charge for these machines and that includes Sony ones too and the other reason is, a back light should have been included on these machines. I was also disappointed that you have to charge with a computer via usb, so if you are on holiday and can't get to a comp to recharge it is either tough luck or you have to buy the power socket cable yourself, it should have been included with the kit, maybe then I might have been happier with the price. And living in the country I have to shop on line for the right connection for this and that is more expense I feel angry about.

After a week or so I came to the conclusion, 'However did I manage without this wonderful little gadget' I would be lost without it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars BeBook Reader, 20 Aug 2008

By	Mr. M. A. Gray (U.K.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have had my BeBook reader for a few weeks now and can honestly say that its great. It is easy to use and not too wearing on the eyes. The E ink technology is cool and very clear to read. It comes with a guide booklet which isnt the most informative or well written but I found very quickly that if you play around with it, its dead easy. I am not a technically minded person but have found it easy to download ebooks from the net and it has a SD card slot at the top so memory space isnt a problem. It certainly won't take the place of a book in my heart but it has opened my reading experience to another level.

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