BeBook/Hanlin - 1 month review

johanm · 01-29-2009, 03:13 PM

I have been using my BeBook ebook reader for one month now, so I thought it was time for a first review. In this post I will write about the BeBook, what you can use it for, its features, possibilities, limitations and quirks and give you some advice before you buy an ebook reader. I have used a lot of its features, but not all of them and I also encountered some of the limitations and quirks. I will probably post an extra review in a couple of months when I had the time, the need or felt the desire to explore the rest of the features and possibilities. By the way, I love my BeBook. Read the rest of my review at my blog:
http://blog.johan-mares.be/ict/gadge...-month-review/

Spoiler for my review: for the tens of thousands of freely available ebooks and the ebooks you create yourself (customized PDF is my favorite) the BeBook is a joy to read and it is very addictive (you have been warned). For technical ebooks the conclusion is more mixed: I estimate that some 60-70% of those are readable, varying from barely to good, but not nearly as good as customized PDF, MOBI or EPUB. So if you have lots of technical ebooks (howto, config files, ebooks, emagazines, documentation, courses, manuals, ...) in a variety of formats (PDF, CHM, TXT, RTF) and publishers, chances are that you will be able to read a lot of them on your BeBook. If all your ebooks are from the same publisher, you better ask someone, on this forum for example, to try them out first.

See also: http://blog.johan-mares.be/category/ict/gadget/bebook/

phenomshel · 01-29-2009, 06:33 PM

Thank you for posting, Johan, this was very informative!

DDHarriman · 01-30-2009, 05:44 PM

Congrats for your choice and thanks for the detailed review.

Keep us update about your experiences with the reader.

Best regards,

01-29-2009, 03:13 PM	#1
johanm Member Posts: 18 Karma: 26 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Belgium Device: BeBook (Hanlin v3) and iPod Touch	BeBook/Hanlin - 1 month review I have been using my BeBook ebook reader for one month now, so I thought it was time for a first review. In this post I will write about the BeBook, what you can use it for, its features, possibilities, limitations and quirks and give you some advice before you buy an ebook reader. I have used a lot of its features, but not all of them and I also encountered some of the limitations and quirks. I will probably post an extra review in a couple of months when I had the time, the need or felt the desire to explore the rest of the features and possibilities. By the way, I love my BeBook. Read the rest of my review at my blog: http://blog.johan-mares.be/ict/gadge...-month-review/ Spoiler for my review: for the tens of thousands of freely available ebooks and the ebooks you create yourself (customized PDF is my favorite) the BeBook is a joy to read and it is very addictive (you have been warned). For technical ebooks the conclusion is more mixed: I estimate that some 60-70% of those are readable, varying from barely to good, but not nearly as good as customized PDF, MOBI or EPUB. So if you have lots of technical ebooks (howto, config files, ebooks, emagazines, documentation, courses, manuals, ...) in a variety of formats (PDF, CHM, TXT, RTF) and publishers, chances are that you will be able to read a lot of them on your BeBook. If all your ebooks are from the same publisher, you better ask someone, on this forum for example, to try them out first. See also: http://blog.johan-mares.be/category/ict/gadget/bebook/

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01-29-2009, 06:33 PM	#2
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Thank you for posting, Johan, this was very informative!

01-30-2009, 05:44 PM	#3
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Congrats for your choice and thanks for the detailed review. Keep us update about your experiences with the reader. Best regards,