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Not long ago the French company Bookeen introduced its own electronic-book reader to the market called Cybook Gen3, also based totally on E Ink’s technology. This review will consider the Cybook’s stronger and weaker points and how it compares to other devices on the market.

The Cybook Gen3 uses E Ink’s Vizplex technology.

You can not but stop and wonder at how tiny and light it is. This is formed probable in part due to E Ink’s display technology. Before we continue with the review, we would like to elucidate a crucial point per the Cybook. Though in a number of cases it was feasible to read the text in landscape mode, in numerous cases the text on the PDF was much too tiny to be considered readable.

In the most extreme case, enormous, complicated PDF documents appeared blank, and with many documents our device crashed altogether. Though supported, reading PDF documents is a bonus feature.

Bookeen’s first PDF reader is a Spartan device, with only a few keys and inputs. On the front side, you will find one main function key trapped by 4 directional buttons for moving up, down, left, and right. On the Kindle, there’s a long bar that, with a peaceful push, flips a page forward and backward.

This action appears more intuitive, as well as less stressed, on the user’s finger ; it also needs less accuracy, while it has more of an opportunity in leading to a random flip. O conclude our review of Bookeen’s Cybook, we may try and summarise our general impression of the device after many weeks of testing.

On the positive side, we are able to definitely say that, for the main part, the Cybook is reasonably fast and responsive. It’s got a readable display, good battery life, good RSS support, and as a dedicated electronic book reader it sometimes does its job very well. On the other hand, it is tough to use the device without considering how better it might have been given a touch improved hardware and stronger firmware.

Adding a keyboard, like that on the Kindle, would also be a brilliant idea, though it would increase the device’s size. Another likelihood could be to make a slider with a keyboard that opens only when you want it, keeping the device little whilst accelerating its functionality. Adding some type of wireless capability, 3G or Wi-Fi, would also be really welcome, it might definitely cut back the battery life and increase the price of the device.