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CyBooK OPUS Electronic Reader Review

Fourth-generation electronic book reader from Bookeen BooKeen Electronic Book Reader

Bookeen, one of the first companies into the electronic reader market (1998) has released its fourth generation electronic book reader, named the Cybook Opus.

Cybook Style

Bookeen has tried really hard to keep up to the big players, Amazon kindle and Sony Reader. They've done a good job with the Cybook Opus. It is slimmer, lighter and faster than many of its competitors packing a 400MHz processor into a compact 4 inch by 6 inch frame and a weight of only 5.3 oz (150 g).

Bookeen Cybook Opus - eBook reader 400 MHz - RAM: 32 MB - Flash: 1 GB - 5

Cybook Screen

Of course, the Cybook Opus uses an e-Ink technology screen which gives electronic readers their ability to look and read like regular paper. The screen comes in black and white with four shades of gray and a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. The Reading at the coffee shopscreen is backlit which eliminates eyestrain that you might find reading on a computer LCD screen. Unlike regular paper the Cybook Opus has 12 font size options.

The e-Ink screen also only consumes energy when turning the page giving the Cybook Opus an impressive 8000 page-turns per charge (or approximately a few weeks of regular reading).

Another great feature of the Cybook Opus is the built in Accelerometer which automatically switches from portrait to landscape reading mode, great for both left and right-handed readers!

Cybook Electronic Reader Features

A few of the other features found on the Cybook Opus Electronic book Reader include:

  • 1 GB internal memory
  • SD memory card slot
  • Supported formats: PDF, ePub, TXT, HTML, JPEG, GIF and PNG
  • Connects via a Mini USB
  • Compatible with PC and Mac
  • Lithium-Polymer re-chargeable battery
  • Sold with 75 classic titles (see selection below)

Bookeen Cybook Opus - eBook reader 400 MHz - RAM: 32 MB - Flash: 1 GB - 5

Free Titles Sold With the Cybook Opus Electronic book Reader CyBook with magazines

A Dogs Tale - Mark Twain

Jack and Jill - A village Story - Louisa May Alcott

Moby Dick - Hermann Melville

A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy

Adam Bede - George Eliot

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Dracula - Bram Stocker

Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott

Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs Cybook Reader with Book Cover

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Magic of Oz - L. Frank Baum

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Message from the Sea - Charles Dickens

Emma - Jane Austen

Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

The Lost World - Sir A. Conan Doyle

Around the World in heighty days - Jules Verne

Michael Strogoff or, the Courrier of the Czar - Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Père

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

The Story of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Kiss Me Deadly - Michele Hauf

The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir A. Conan Doyle

The Jungle book - Rudyard Kipling

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm

Baby Bonanza - Maureen Child