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Originally Posted by darex
I would love to hear from more users who have had good experiences with the Cybook. I.e. normal useage carrying it around in a bag as you would a mobile phone and it not breaking.
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That would be 99.9% of us. People who have problems moan about them. People who don't, stay silent. Personally I've carried two different Gen3's around with me pretty much everywhere I go for a year and a half. Zero problems.
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Also is there any reason not to get a sony? (aside from a bit more expensive). I realise that sony screens may be somewhat fragile but they have sold several hundred thousand of these and if the problem was as bad as with CYBook this site would be covered in head to toe with sony screen break issues.
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There have been plenty of reports of broken screens in the Sony forum. Given that the two machines use an identical screen, it's just as likely to break as a CyBook's screen if you do something silly like sit on it.
Do you want a Sony or do you want a CyBook? It's like asking "should I buy an apple or an orange?". They are different machines with different capabilities. The Sony is undoubtedly better engineered; the CyBook is equally undoubtedly (IMHO) streets ahead when it comes to software, with Mobi support, dictionary lookup, the ability to load any font you wish onto the machine, and also in some hardware features, such as having a user-replaceable battery.
Both machines are good - but different. What features are you looking for in an eBook reader?