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petermillard · 06-10-2008, 05:32 PM

Yep, ordered it late on Friday 6th, delivered 10.30am Tuesday 10th - not bad at all. Stuck it on charge and went back to work.

Been playing this evening - hooks up to mobipocket desktop without a hitch (this on a MacBook running XP under Parallels) and easy peasy transfer/sync of books. Gen3 seems to happily display html, txt, mobi and pdf - the pdfs are the ones that come with the cybook, so I guess that's to be expected.

My only gripe so far (aside from the cover 'to follow' grrrr) is really a mobipocket issue; I tried to buy some books from mobi, and can download the 'tasters' but when I try to buy the actual books, I'm told they're 'not available in your country'! Seriously, I would have bought $100 or so of books tonight (it's an author I like), books that are available as eBooks in the correct (DRM'd) format, and I can't do it because.. well, I just don't know why, to be honest. Seems crazy that I can download the taster, for free, but not buy the $21 ebook 'cos I'm in the 'wrong' country.

Anyway, that aside, I'm well please with the Cybook - just need that case, now!

Cheers, Pete.

06-10-2008, 05:32 PM	#1
petermillard Evangelist Posts: 496 Karma: 2384998 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: London, UK Device: iPad, iPhone, K3 & Amazon - between them they cover my needs.	Mine arrived today... Yep, ordered it late on Friday 6th, delivered 10.30am Tuesday 10th - not bad at all. Stuck it on charge and went back to work. Been playing this evening - hooks up to mobipocket desktop without a hitch (this on a MacBook running XP under Parallels) and easy peasy transfer/sync of books. Gen3 seems to happily display html, txt, mobi and pdf - the pdfs are the ones that come with the cybook, so I guess that's to be expected. My only gripe so far (aside from the cover 'to follow' grrrr) is really a mobipocket issue; I tried to buy some books from mobi, and can download the 'tasters' but when I try to buy the actual books, I'm told they're 'not available in your country'! Seriously, I would have bought $100 or so of books tonight (it's an author I like), books that are available as eBooks in the correct (DRM'd) format, and I can't do it because.. well, I just don't know why, to be honest. Seems crazy that I can download the taster, for free, but not buy the $21 ebook 'cos I'm in the 'wrong' country. Anyway, that aside, I'm well please with the Cybook - just need that case, now! Cheers, Pete.