BOOKEEN OPUS eREADER - REVIEW

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This latest eReader from the French company who were among the first to produce an eReader lives up to their reputation for innovation and style (they are French after all!!!) and glories in the name of  Bookeen Opus.

This new eReader has been received with generally positive reactions from users and other reviewers and appears to be a solid and worthy successor of earlier models from this company I am happy to be able to report.

FORMATS:

As with most good eReaders this newest one supports all the normal formats,  so you can buy books from hundreds of online eBook shops and happily read them with this eReader.  I shall give the technical specifications at the end of this post, as always.

SIMPLICITY AND PRICE:

This is a very basic eReader, so it will not appeal to those of you who need all manner of special functions obviously, but for people who simply want to be able to carry a lot of books around with them and read them in comfort, then this is a very interesting machine.  And as an added attraction the price is also perfectly reasonable and in line with other eReaders of similar specs at around 250 US Dollars

EXTRAS:

Going a bit against the trend, they haven't included WiFi support to download books or given it a touch screen and keyboard, thus you cant make notations or in any other way do much more than simply read your books.  But, transferring your downloaded books from your computer to this eReader is a very simple matter,  via the USB cable.  The same method is used for charging the battery, which is amazingly efficient by the way - you can go on reading for about 8000 page turns, which makes it a bit like a small moped rather than a Harley Davidson motorbike... very efficient fuel use thus.

COMPANY BLOG:

As you will see, if you visit their blog, which is in English and French they are continuously busy with updates for the operating system, increasing the possibilities at your finger tips.  This is an approach I appreciate a lot, not only is it fun to know that, for example you can read comics on it, but that they have taken the trouble to keep in touch with their customers in this way, as well as a free newsletter that one can subscribe to in order to keep completely up to date with developments.

MEMORY:

As is now almost standard on eReaders, it has the normal compliment of memory expansion slots, to enable you to use memory cards, so that if you wish, you can carry thousands of books around with you at all times, though to be honest, I have never really understood why anyone would want to carry so many books around with them. I find having 70 or so books in mine more than enough, and regularly clear them off my eReader and store them on my computer.... but we all have our needs and having the possibility to carry a complete library around is obviously important to lots of people.

SIZE AND WEIGHT:

The size and weight of this one is something that has attracted a lot of very positive comment out there, most people feel that it is an ideal compromise in those respects, and love it for them, also attracting positive comments is the relative simplicity of navigating around your library in this eReader.

It is simply a very good and user friendly eReader, well supported by a lively and friendly company, no more and no less.

Now for all the technical stuff and contact links to them.

PRICE:

Around 250 US Dollars. 

CONTACT THEM:
Bookeen Blog:
Company website:
Bookeen eBook Store

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

Dimensions

Height 151 mm - 6"
Length 108 mm - 4.2"
Width 10mm - 0.4"
Weight 150 g - 5.3 oz

Electronics

Samsung ARM, 400 MHz

Memory

• RAM : 32 MBStorage 
• (NAND): 1 GB
• Storage card : Micro SD

User interface

G-sensor for motion detection :
automatic screen orientation

Keys

• On/Off
• Reset
• 5-way navigation
• Menu button
• Back button
• Page forward/page backward

Display

• E-Ink screen 5" (3" x 4" - 76mm x 101mm)Resolution 600 x 800 - 200 dpi 
• Black & White 4 levels grey-scale
• Daylight readable
• Portrait and landscape mode
• Memory interfaces

• Micro SD slot
• Mini USB slave

Power

Rechargeable and replaceable Internal Battery LI-Polymer (1000mAh), 8 000 page flips - 2 weeks battery life

Software Suite

• OS : Linux 2.6
• Adobe® ePUB/PDF Reader
• Multi-format reader
  HTML, TXT, JPG, GIF, PNG
• Bouton Retour
• Folder support
• USB driver

SHARE WITH US:
If you have one of these eReaders, and have any comments about it that you would like to share with the rest of us, please send them to me, and I shall post them.  As always I shall credit you with the post, of course!



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