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Old 05-01-2009, 08:17 AM   #2
gwitt
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Location: Lübeck, Germany
Device: BeBook reader
Legibility / Fonts
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The pre-installed font is very good legible; but I personally prefer the open source font „LinuxLibertineO“ http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-DE.html , which could only be installed on a SD-card and had to be reloaded every time after removal and reinsertion of the SD card. (By the way: OI comes with that font from beginning on and there it does not always have to be reloaded.)

File formats
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In my eyes .doc files are not very well displayed. It's a pity that the OpenOffice.org .odt format is not supported by both the standard as well as the OI firmware. That would be a very nice feature.
I cannot really accept the excuse in the manual FAQs sounding like “.. why don't you use the .doc export in OpenOffice.org instead?”
The Display of PDFs is also usable, but slooooow...; but this is also true for OI. The bottleneck here seems to be the limited computing power of the processor.
Unlike the OI PDF you only have 3 PDF zoom steps with the BoBook PDF software, but with a reasonable 90° page turn at the 3rd step. Such comic books or else (e.g. PerryRhodan) can be displayed legibly enough. By the way, I am missing this 90° turn feature in OI but this lack can be compensated by using OI's multiple adjustable zoom steps.

DRM format

According to the device manual Wolf and mobipocket DRM format is supported. But I didn't test DRM formats, yet.


PC-connect
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The USB connection to a PC / notebook with Linux OS is quite “notchy”.
Sometimes both storage units (internal and SD) could be recognized and accessed as USB mass storage, sometimes not. Also there were drop outs during the connection even during file transfers to the device or SD card. It turned out that the only safe way to transfer files under Linux is the SD card. (Don't know how it works with other OS).
With the standard firmware you can even not delete files on the device. For this purpose you would need a PC-connection. (If you us OI instead you can do that easily with the device itself and without a PC)

Apart from this my overall impression of the device is that it is well serviceable also for non-Linux-enthusiasts. To me BeBook is a useful and easy to use device.

Last edited by gwitt; 05-01-2009 at 01:31 PM.
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