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This book tells the author's experience in selecting, buying and using a Bookeen Cybook Opus ebook reading device. The Opus is a popular compact device manufactured in France by Bookeen. It features a 5' e-ink display and 1 GB of storage for ebooks and documents.My Cybook Opus Ebook Reader is a sort of diary of a technically savvy user new to. These digital books are in Adobe secured format (EPUB or PDF), the available catalog increases very quickly and gains several hundreds titles per month. Available digital books are available at a substantial discount when compared to paper books. Cybook Opus can also read free classical books in HTML, PDF, EPUB or TXT file formats.
Contents.Description The Cybook Opus is an ultra-light reading device based on screen technology.The device is 4.2″ x 6″ x 0.4″ inches and weighs 5.3 oz (150g), battery included. It features with a 200 dpi display which is enough for text, although not enough for high quality images.
Its screen possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance and is readable under direct sunlight. It is not the best E-Ink screen available, as it supports only 4 shades of gray compared with the 8 or 16 shades on some other readers. Controls The control system include:-two long buttons to the right of the screen (in standard portrait mode) to handle page navigation. Side buttons can be flipped (“Advanced” menu), allowing one hand page turns with thumb on lower button (portrait modes only).-a four-way navigation wheel with a button at its centre below the screen, which is primarily used for navigating the menu system but can also be used for page navigation.
The menu is activated by a dedicated button, and then there's a back button to return to the previous option or screen.It has an accelerometer that allows it to switch from portrait to landscape mode automatically (if the option is enabled), which will appeal equally to left and right-handed readers. All the controls change to match the orientation, and behave as a user would expect - whichever page button is 'top' or 'right' will go to the next page, and the 'bottom' or 'left' button will go to the previous page, no matter which way around you hold the Opus.While reading and also in the “Library”, keeping next/previous page button pressed will enter the fast pagination mode.Battery and power It has a Lithium Polymer (Li-Polymer) rechargeable (and replaceable, unlike other devices) battery, with a battery lifetime of 8,000 page flips. The page flips are the only thing that consumes battery. To charge the device, you use the same included USB cable that you use for transferring content to it (either via free Adobe Digital Editions software or by dragging and dropping to storage). It takes 5 hours for a full charge.Storage, copying and organizing the library To a host computer the Cybook functions as a typical USB mass storage device. The user can categorize your books into folders and subfolders for easy access. It stores up to 1,000 titles in 1GB of built in flash memory.
A Micro slot allows for expanded storage, which does support SDHC cards for up to 32GB more storage space.Formats supported The device uses fonts (TTF), and can also be used as an image viewer.Text formats: Adobe ePub / PDF (native or DRM-protected), TXT, FictionBook (.fb2) and HTML files without any conversions. One has to choose between ePub or Mobi (due to Amazon contract restrictions), but you can swap Mobi and ePUB firmware as often as you wish (and as sensible).
Conversions from all formats can be done with 3rd party software such as Calibre.Image formats (black and white):, andThe Cybook technically supports files, however it doesn't actually reflow text. Current firmware revisions support ten levels of zoom and allow scrolling around the page, making the device suitable for reading many PDF files.Fonts and text display 12 font sizes, from very small to very large (works with ePub, HTML, FB2, TXT).You can add your own fonts.
Create a folder called 'Fonts' (the name is case sensitive) under the 'CyBook' USB drive and add your TrueType or OpenType fonts to it (works with ePub, HTML, FB2, TXT).Layout can be switched between justified and left-aligned text (works with ePub, HTML, FB2, TXT).Text emboldening: allows setting text in bold for maximized contrast (works with ePub, HTML, FB2, TXT).Operating system and firmware The Cybook Opus runs as its underlying operating system; however, the firmware is open source but not the application. This could be due to the support for DRM protected e-books, which probably require third party libraries.June 2010 Bookeen published a much improved firmware. This new firmware, (V2.1 build 1198) brings the 1 second mode: Cybook can be switched on/off in 1 second, keeping last read page open -this allows you to switch on and off without having to boot each time.
See the.pdf User interface is available in a total of 23 languages.Pros and cons of its features As it lacks a keyboard, it does not have dictionary support, annotations and bookmarks. It also does not have Wi-Fi access, text-to-speech support nor the possibility of listening to music while reading. It is meant only for reading, like a physical book. The main concern was to make it small and lightweight, so that one can read for hours without discomfort.
It uses open formats and standards so it would not lock the user into one company's products in future.See also. other similar devicesReferences.
.A decade ago claiming to carry 10,000 tunes in your pocket would be met with guffaws. Today, it's yawns.
Digital book readers are now about where MP3 players were before the iPod, though with a big difference. Unlike a recording industry ill-prepared to offer a legitimate alternative to anything-goes downloading, book publishers are relatively well-organized in putting digital content up for sale. In addition, there's an abundance of public domain content available, including many literary classics. What's held back the eBook revolution until now was bulky design and lackluster screens.
But today's readers are getting insanely thin and display 200 dots per inch, which makes for very readable text. While the contrast between characters and background of handhelds for the most part has not yet reached the level of black ink on lily-white paper, it is getting better with each generation. Keep in mind that though a computer screen or even a diminutive iPod Touch offers greater contrast, they're backlit devices. The electronic books here work with reflective light, which greatly extends reading time before recharging.Perhaps the biggest barrier to adoption is that people are accustomed to print and aren't inclined to try something different. But time may be on the side of digital books as younger generations are born into a world in which text on paper bound between covers isn't the only way to enjoy reading fiction or non-fiction.There are compelling reasons to use a digital reader, not the least of which is that unlike a printed book, the user can change the text size on the fly to fit an individual comfort level. How many senior citizens do you know who have curtailed reading because the type is too small?
For them, an electronic book can be a boon. Also, despite the scores of books stored in the reader, the screen and player weigh way less than one bound volume. Portability is a big plus, especially for travelers and commuters.The following survey compares four electronic books available from B&H that go a long way to making screen-based text eminently readable. They each connect to a computer with an included USB cable for transferring content from the Internet and recharging the player's battery.
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Each comes with a varying selection of books or excerpts as well as a case for storing the device. With models like these, the activity of consuming books digitally could well be on the way to becoming commonplace.Smaller than a paperback, the features a crisp 5-inch monochrome screen (600 x 800 pixels) and three font sizes you choose using a dedicated magnifier button. The eBook Library software stored in the Reader is the content management application that uploads to your Windows or Macintosh computer when you connect the device with the included USB cable. The cable also charges the Reader's embedded lithium-ion battery, which when fully-charged powers some 7,500 page turns.
The Reader's 512 Megabytes of internal memory stores about 350 books.As a memory aid, the Reader lets you electronically fold down the upper corner of specific pages by pressing the bookmark button and then call up a list of bookmarked pages. Beyond downloading digital rights management (DRM)-protected books you buy from Sony's eBook Store, you can transfer Portable Document Files (PDF), vanilla text files (TXT), and Rich Text Files (RTF) into the Pocket Edition. A colleague has even borrowed electronic books from the New York Public Library (NYPL.org) for free that he transferred into his Reader via his home computer.Slightly larger and heavier than the Pocket Edition, the features a 6-inch display with pullout stylus that's more precise in controlling the touchscreen than your finger. You can swipe a finger across the screen to turn the page, but if you want to highlight a word to bring up the definition from the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, you use the stylus. The stylus also enables annotations.
You can bring up a touch-screen keyboard for entering text or making freehand notes.Unlike the Pocket Edition, the Touch Edition includes a picture viewer and audio player. You supply your own earphones. I discovered that turning up the music is a great defense while reading on the Long Island Railroad. How else could I concentrate on the included excerpt of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the morning that boisterous Yankees fans were Broadway-bound for a World Series victory parade? Beyond the same internal memory as the Pocket Edition, the Touch contains slots for an SD card and Memory Stick PRO Duo. I transferred an SD card from my Canon PowerShot and viewed a slideshow on the Touch Edition in eight gradations of gray.At only 5.3 ounces, the may be the lightest reader in our group, yet it comes preloaded with more books than either Sony device – albeit all classics by such authors as Twain, Verne, and Melville.
Moby Dick alone sops up 667 Kilobytes of the Cybook's one-gigabyte of internal memory. You can expand the memory, though I wasn't thrilled with the card type—micro SD. The Cybook Opus is the only reader compatible with saved HTML pages.The Cybook is also the only one with a motion detection sensor that automatically orientates the screen to a landscape or portrait view as you rotate the screen. (With the other models, it takes a few button presses to change the orientation.) With 12 font sizes, the Cybook affords the most flexibility in letting you adjust the text to be as big or small as you like.Like the Cybook, the sports a 5-inch screen. However, it distinguishes itself from other readers by including a 2GB SD card with 100 books.
It's an eclectic collection of classics from Aesop's Fables to Wuthering Heights. You can listen to music using the built-in MP3 player while brushing up on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The Libre eBook comes with earphones.