Cybook Gen3 Ordered

[Barcey]

Originally Posted by Gibbo

Ok, took the plunge and ordered the Cybook + case total paid £256.10
Order Id: 3064

Heh, I guess you'll be able to do a comparison between the Sony and the Bookeen devices?

[tcmoon]

Order ID Order Date Order Total Currency Ship Date
2423 28 Oct 07 $483.32 USD 28 Oct 07

I don't know about the ship date. I still have not received a notice that it shipped.

Tom

[tobyb]

Yer I wondered about that as my order confirmation also says shipping 28 oct. However Bookeen do not appear to be not shipping any until 2 November. Can't remember where it said it but somewhere during ordering.
Also on their blog: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...80490699678514

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Barcey

Heh, I guess you'll be able to do a comparison between the Sony and the Bookeen devices?

It's only a fair comparison using the 505 and Gen3. The 500 being old tech is not a fair comparison.

[rpink]

I want to read without recharge ;-)

[BuSab]

Hello, i ordered mine on sunday
Basic + shipping : 358.30 EUR
Order id : 2539

Now it's time to code the RSS-to-simple-html tool I'll need. And a filter to make the html version of "le monde" french newspaper easy to read :-)

[Ortep]

Originally Posted by BuSab

Hello, i ordered mine on sunday
Now it's time to code the RSS-to-simple-html tool I'll need. And a filter to make the html version of "le monde" french newspaper easy to read :-)

Isn't the Mobipocket software doing that for you?

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...ailsReader.asp

They support the Cybook and 25000 RSS feeds

[HarryT]

Yes, if you're running Windows, the MobiPocket Desktop Reader will do RSS feeds.

[BuSab]

Yes, if I run windows, but I use Linux or OpenBSD. Moreover, MobiPocket Desktop Reader can't analyse the html page and keep only the content, discarding adds, banner, menu, etc.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Gibbo

Ok, took the plunge and ordered the Cybook + case total paid £256.10
Order Id: 3064

Quite expensive I would say. It is a bit more than I what I paid for Sony Reader in January 2007 when I bought it on b&h.

[bob_ninja]

Well I did it, order 3400
Got frustrated with Sony's limitations to US. Plus want a guarantee that battery can be easily replaced so that I don't have to throw it away in 5 years. Already damaged my PalmPilot trying to replace battery. Don't want to change my PDA/reader every 5 years.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by bob_ninja

Don't want to change my PDA/reader every 5 years.

Heavens! I consider myself to be doing well if I use the same device for 1 year, let alone 5 .

[BuSab]

All my PDA are 5 years old at least
An I also like replacable batteries.

[BKeeper]

Originally Posted by BuSab

Yes, if I run windows, but I use Linux or OpenBSD. Moreover, MobiPocket Desktop Reader can't analyse the html page and keep only the content, discarding adds, banner, menu, etc.

I just tried some rss feeds from Le Monde, Mobipocket reader works flawlessly with them. I've tested with my iLiad, all content available no ads, just the articles.

[BuSab]

Originally Posted by BKeeper

I just tried some rss feeds from Le Monde, Mobipocket reader works flawlessly with them. I've tested with my iLiad, all content available no ads, just the articles.

I tried Le Monde rss feed on my clié yesterday, each news begin with the same text from another article, and end with a text wich explain how to connect to my desk on the website. Not so bad, but half a screen is lost at the begin and end of each article.

And it's only the most important news, not the full newspaper (i suscribed to the web edition).

Some others rss are unreadable, mixing content and comments without index (www.maitre-eolas.fr for example). It's may be a bad designed website or rss feed, but it's not hard to make a program that read the RSS and keep only the content. And it may work on other OS than Windows.