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we now have the choice of bebook (£229)
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I paid £175 for my Hanlin V3 via Pixelar (they now sell them on UK eBay) and it came with a hard case, soft case, cable, little screwdriver and little light. I love it!
Although the firmware could do with some fine tuning, it's brilliant for dealing with all different formats and all different languages. As I come by my reading from all sorts of places (web sites, RSS feeds, electronic text books, e-mails from penfriends etc) it's brilliant. It's only PDFs that have been a nuisance so far, if they are formatted for A4 paper. Then I convert them to text. All the other formats have been fine.
I can also download mp3 audiobooks and listen to them on my "book". Presumably I can listen to an audio book while reading the text version (helpful because I'm a poor reader in Russian) but I haven't figured it out yet.
The reader, being the size of a DVD box, fits into large pockets and the 6" screen is easy to read. Replaceable battery and lots of scope for fiddling.
I also found the Pixelar people to be friendly and easy to deal with.