14 DAY TRIAL // Ladies, gentleman, geeks, you can finally buy the cool Cybook's Gen3 e-book reader. Bookeen decided to send it out in the wild, respecting its promises. The digital device is available online starting now, for a price tag around 350 bucks a pop. As expected, Bookeen web store is the only one to handle the sales of the e-book reader.
Just to make you drool once again, I should remind you of the most important specs. It reveals a 6 inch Vizplex E Ink screen, revealing more contrast than the older E ink technology with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. It also comes with a 2.5mm stereo headphone jack, a 64MB of storage capacity and an SD expansion card slot for an extra memory boost. Moreover, as it was expected, it also features a USB connectivity port, which is probably also used for recharging.
Its measures are also impressive, the e-book weighing about 6.13 ounces, which means it's three ounces lighter than Sony's new PRS-505 Reader. Moreover, it claims to have a battery life of about 8000 page flips between each charge, and the capability to receive RSSs feeds and eNews.
Regarding the extra capabilities, the "Bookeen e-book reader is said to be able to deal not just DRMed and non DRMed mobipocket content, but also many other formats like HTML, Txt, PRC, PalmDoc and PDF. "As you might have noticed, these files are found on the Internet, but they can also be easily generated by text editors. However, the e-Book reader cannot eat DRMed PDF.
If you really want to wear it in a dandy manner, I guess you could try and purchase some of the cool accessories on the market, such as the leather cover, an extra 2GB memory card, earphones and an extra battery. All in all, the best news of all is the fact that they actually started selling these devices. And they're damn good!
