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I despise time font

Not sure what kindle uses]]>May 12th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/]]>May 12th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.someonespoilme.com/gift-review/sony-prs-505sc-reader-digital-book-silver/]]>May 12th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/Make it color
Give it a respectable refresh rate
SELL ME MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS!!!!!!]]>May 12th 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
Minnie: Sony PRS-505 uses Vizplex screen which has 8 grayscale levels. PRS-500, Kindle and this new thing all use olders screens with only 4 levels of gray.]]>May 12th 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 12th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
Sony does "Adobe® PDF, JPEG, BBeB Book and plain text formats natively supported. Microsoft Word requires conversion using included software." Kindle requires conversion then sending the book wirelessly.

This one seems a lot more useful to me...the price is the only real problem I see with it. The n800 makes a great ebook reader, and is more versatile at a fraction of the price. E-ink just doesn't seem worth it yet.]]>May 12th 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
Bebook is open standard, you can easily update system software.

The Bebook supports changing of fonts manually. You can put in any (windows) font using your usb cable and then change the font yourself in settings menu.

Ofcourse any pdf will show the font(s) built-in.

Tyler]]>May 13th 2008 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
Anyway...those prices are way too high. I'll think about a Book Reader when there will be available under 100$.]]>May 13th 2008 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/




.... are you happy now?]]>May 13th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/May 13th 2008 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/Current street price is under $400, I just bought it for about 410 including shipping.
Comparing to Sony 505 it has the same speed, screen quality and functionality. A little bit worse regarding body construction and design, though is doesn't matter in most cases. Anyone gets used to it after an hour of reading (that is really good; text formatting works perfectly, lot of file formats supported).
]]>May 13th 2008 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/No WiFi.
Bluetooth?!
Too expensive for what it is.
Oh and their website... no. ]]>May 13th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/I mean how hard would it be to include that format. I've got tons for ebooks
in .lit format that I have on my PocketPC but it's just too hard to use such
a small screen for extended periods.

Personally I think a color screen would be great. I've got pdf's on my PPC of
menus for all the restaurants I think I might ever visit (it's also good to see
the dishes they offer in color as well as have their phone number in the pdf)
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http://www.jinke.com.cn/Compagesql/English/embedpro/prodetail.asp?id=41]]>May 14th 2008 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
I've done a review for anyone interested at:

http://pookey.co.uk/blog/archives/61-BeBook-review.html]]>Aug 8th 2008 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/Aug 18th 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
nastyninja@gmail.com

Good luck]]>Aug 25th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/Oct 8th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/
http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/

]]>Dec 31st 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/bebook-e-book-reader-makes-its-debut-doesnt-run-beos/Just bought the Bebook here in Australia. I am happy. It does not have touchscreen or wifi but it does the trick. Perfect screen to read ebooks.
Happy customer

PS; I thinks it's not appropriate to put an website here but I bought it in Australia, so lets google and you will find it.


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