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Originally Posted by Ortep
That sounds reasonable. But that means they already have outsold the original Cybook with order numbers over 5000 now
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Oh, I'm absolutely certain they have! The original CyBook (of which I have one) was NEVER anything more than a "specialist" device; certainly never attracted the attention and mass orders that the Gen3 is going.
It was nice in many ways. It was a generic Windows CE machine which could run multiple programs, and Bookeen's approach was to install pretty much every bookreading application they could find on it, so it would read lots of different formats. It would also work with Wifi PCMCIA cards, and had IE, so you could use it for web browsing, etc.
The main downside was the lousy battery life. 4h at best for reading; about 90 minutes for WiFi use.