Bookeen has taken the bull by the horns with the Cybook OPUS which is a lovely piece of kit.
Small at 151mm x 108mm x 10mm thick and light at 150g it is pocketable. Made from white plastic it feels solid and looks trendy. It has 1GB of storage on board and supports microSD cards. Getting books into it is a simple matter of connecting to a PC then doing a drag and drop.
The screen isn’t huge at 5-inches across the diagonal, but it’s 600 x 800 pixels, 200dpi, 4 greyscale level E-Ink display is fine to read. And there’s a built in accelerometer which turns the screen into wide format if you want it that way.
Supported data formats include HTML, TXT, JLG, GIF, PNG, ePUB and PDF. The battery is good for about 8,000 page turns and you can replace the 1000mAh cell thanks to the removable cover. There isn’t actually room for anything much larger, but 8,000 page turns before you get to a power source should be enough for most of us.
The on-device controls run to four front buttons, a five way navigation key and side mounted on/off switch and, under the battery cover, a reset pin. It’s minimal and you probably won’t need the manual to get started.
At €250 it costs more than a whole stack of paper books, but that’s the way with ebook readers.
Sandra Vogel
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Booken (Cybook Gen3) do not complying with warranty
If you plan to buy one of the BOOKEN ebook readers be careful!
They do not complying with warranty.
After few months of use of Booken Cybook Gen 3 (Gold) the screen remained blocked and it was not possible more to use.
Asking to Booken for the reparation in warranty, they say that screen damage is not covered. Even demonstrating that it was due to an intrinsic defect and not to damage caused for example by a fall or an impacted by sharp object as keys, screwdriver, etc (the ebook reader was on the table in a safe place and I simply open again after some days) they will no comply with warranty and asked for the reparation a cost which makes more convenient to buy a new (different) ebook reader.
Note that the warranty do not indicates that screen is not covered by warranty.
NOTE also that the screen was NOT broken by a physical impact, because was just on the table and with its hard cover protection. I demonstrated to them that there is no sign at all which indicate a physical impact, but still they refuse the reparation.
Therefore, if you plan to buy one of the BOOKEN ebook readers be extremely carefull. They do not comply with warranty and will charge yo you the cost of reparation.
For the reparation, it is necessary to send in France, with also the additional cost of international mail, and thus it is more convenient to buy a new apparatus that repair, if the cost of screen should be charged. On the other hand, they know that make an international legal opposition (because technical assistance is made only at the company headquarter in France) is to complex and at the end more costly that buy a new one.
That's pretty bad then a perfect example of whats seem's to be a good product/purchase, can then easily turn out to be a disaster for the end user.