Ater much anticipation, I finally received my Cybook yesterday.
I've got to say i'm very impressed with the overall product. The screen clarity is excellent and really is as easy to read as paper. The operation is straight forward and the firmware seems to do it's job quite well.
The page change flash is quite strange to me but I think I will soon get used to that, what I find a bit annoying is the time it takes between pressing the button and changing the page, sometimes the page change is immediate, and this is perfect for reading. Sometimes the page change happens, but it seems to need to think about it first, with the whole change taking about twice as long as normal, this is a bit annoying, and finally there is the page change that doesn't happen. I've pressed the button, the LED lights up briefly so I know its accepted the input, then nothing happens.
There was a few things which I found dissapointing. I am a very fast reader and in an effort to get more text on each page I found myself trying to read with an uncomfortably small font size. I noticed in the menu there is options to remove the header and pageometer. I removed these expecting to get an extra couple of lines on each page, unfortunatley the page size doesn't change. In a similar vein, an option to set the size of the borders would be great. There is enough room on each page for the ammount of text I wish, It's just not utilized at the moment.
I did encounter one serious problem with bookmarks, they all dissapeared and I couldn't create any new ones. Pressing the reset button seemed to fix this but my bookmarks never came back. Not a problem if it was a one off, a big problem if this is going to happen often, considering how difficult it is to navigate to a point somewhere in the middle of a book. Has anybody else encountered this?
Overall though, if someone was to offer me the full price I paid for it in cash, I'd tell them to get in line with everyone else cos this is a keeper
