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pekefosch · 06-08-2009, 04:11 PM

@Idoine: I agree with you. That are almost exactly my thoughts, too.
@gerraldo: Dear gerraldo. Thanks for the kindly prospection of my posting. I don't really fearing about dying of a technology. That is life. I have seen that with Atari after Jack Tramiel died. GEM and TOS disappeared dissolving in Windows 3.1. That is no problem. My special POV is being lucky about the Cybook because of the following reasons. A family member of mine had a fusion of cervical spine that disabled head movement at all. So he cannot look down to a notebook screen, cannot read books on a "musical notes stand" because books are regularly too wide for viewing without head rotation, Smartphone and PDA devices are either to heavy or are exhausting. Mobipocket for Palm is convenient but reading much is not a relaxing thing. So the Cybook as much as some other 6" eInk readers are very fine and Cybook is very lightweight for this certain purpose.

I didn' want to accuse anybody for discussing the Cybook faults but before I bought it I did some Google searching (in German, as well as in English language) and found so many people telling they are unhappy with that device and since it is almost perfectly suitable for my needs I wanted to get a proper bias, you can call it loyalist marketing

My individual needs are:
* extremely lightweighted
* 5,5-7" display (bigger is not capable and lesser is not uncomfortable for our needs)

My wishes:
* color, searchable, on-demand-touchscreen, larger pagination buttons, sdhc compatibility, much better book index (sortable in metadata or filename and folder style browsing of books: at least like a gui ftp client), buttons with bigger size (such devices could conveniently help older people with bad visus), case with grips for better holding, TOC link feature with better selected-link-highlighting (e.g. inverse)

Any other reader would be fine, too. My intention is primarily promotion for disabled persons' use (rehabilitation care products are often unpayable (such as screen reader or braille systems or tts configurations)). So the Bookeen Cybook fits a certain niche and although it has not backlight nor perfect pdf support and almost no real customer information service it is relatively cheap and smart I had to write about my positive relation to it.

Thanks for discussion and god bless.

06-08-2009, 04:11 PM	#10
pekefosch Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 302 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Cybook Gen3, Palm TX, E2	@Idoine: I agree with you. That are almost exactly my thoughts, too. @gerraldo: Dear gerraldo. Thanks for the kindly prospection of my posting. I don't really fearing about dying of a technology. That is life. I have seen that with Atari after Jack Tramiel died. GEM and TOS disappeared dissolving in Windows 3.1. That is no problem. My special POV is being lucky about the Cybook because of the following reasons. A family member of mine had a fusion of cervical spine that disabled head movement at all. So he cannot look down to a notebook screen, cannot read books on a "musical notes stand" because books are regularly too wide for viewing without head rotation, Smartphone and PDA devices are either to heavy or are exhausting. Mobipocket for Palm is convenient but reading much is not a relaxing thing. So the Cybook as much as some other 6" eInk readers are very fine and Cybook is very lightweight for this certain purpose. I didn' want to accuse anybody for discussing the Cybook faults but before I bought it I did some Google searching (in German, as well as in English language) and found so many people telling they are unhappy with that device and since it is almost perfectly suitable for my needs I wanted to get a proper bias, you can call it loyalist marketing My individual needs are: * extremely lightweighted * 5,5-7" display (bigger is not capable and lesser is not uncomfortable for our needs) My wishes: * color, searchable, on-demand-touchscreen, larger pagination buttons, sdhc compatibility, much better book index (sortable in metadata or filename and folder style browsing of books: at least like a gui ftp client), buttons with bigger size (such devices could conveniently help older people with bad visus), case with grips for better holding, TOC link feature with better selected-link-highlighting (e.g. inverse) Any other reader would be fine, too. My intention is primarily promotion for disabled persons' use (rehabilitation care products are often unpayable (such as screen reader or braille systems or tts configurations)). So the Bookeen Cybook fits a certain niche and although it has not backlight nor perfect pdf support and almost no real customer information service it is relatively cheap and smart I had to write about my positive relation to it. Thanks for discussion and god bless.