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Old 03-12-2008, 07:43 AM   #21
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Location: Brussels, Belgium
Device: Psion 5, Palm Tungsten T2, Nokia N73, Cybook Gen3
Mine arrived too - nice fast shipping.

I'm going to post a proper review of my own in due course, but here are some quick first impressions:

- Light! Wafer thin. Too thin, possibly! But once in the (lovely) leather case it's just right.

- This is my first encounter with e-ink. I confess I'm a little disappointed. In strong light it's very good, in anything less... well, quite honestly it's not that far beyond what we had a decade ago with monochrome LCD screens. And at least my Psion 5mx was backlit.

- Speed - ouch! The low responsiveness will take some getting used to. It's a fact of life with the e-ink hardware I guess but it's not just the very slow pageturns which bother me, it's also the slow library navigation speed.

- Which brings me to my number one concern: navigation. I have a library of several hundred e-books totaling around 5gb. How on earth am I going to navigate them on the CyBook?!? This machine desperately needs a firmware update to allow directory browsing, and a title search function.

- Finally, my 4gb SD card makes it hang when inserted. This isn't good.

Anyway, all in all, I'm slightly underwhelmed, I hope it will grow on me.
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