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BeBook E-Reader Is Over-Priced and Under-Powered
By Charlie Sorrel May 12, 2008 | 7:21:25 AM Categories: Other

The mewling, puking newborn that is the e-book market has few contenders. If you discount the iPhone (and you should, because right now it's still a pain to get any text on there) then you're left with Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. The Kindle is probably the best of these -– the only place it really loses out is battery life.

So, any newcomer really needs to beat the Kindle, either on price, features or availability of books. Unfortunately, the Dutch BeBook does none of these. It costs €330 ($510) against the Kindle's $400. It doesn't have a dedicated store and most significant of all, it doesn't have the Kindle's killer feature, an always on EVDO internet connection.

Which is a shame. The BeBook has the looks to beat the others, supports all the usual formats (pdf, doc, txt, wolf, html, mp3, png, tiff, gif, jpg and bmp), has an SD-card slot to boost its 512MB built in memory and, because it uses e-ink, the battery will last for weeks. It's just that nobody will buy it.

In fact, the only advantage it has is that it is available worldwide, unlike the Kindle. Once Amazon sorts out its production troubles, though, and cuts some deals with non-U.S. telcos for web access, the BeBook will just be an interesting footnote in e-book history.

BeBook e-book reader makes its debut, doesn't run BeOS
by Donald Melanson, posted May 12th 2008 at 7:11PM

If you can get past the tinge of disappointment in learning that something named the BeBook isn't actually the BeOS-based laptop you've been waiting for all these years, you may be only slightly less disappointed to know that it's another fairly ordinary and somewhat overpriced e-book reader. Coming in at a hefty €330 (or $510), this one ditches newfangled features like built-in WiFi or EV-DO, with it choosing instead to focus on basic features like a six-inch E Ink display, 512MB of internal memory, and an SD card slot for expansion. You'll also get support for all the usual document and image formats, as well as some basic MP3 playback functionality. If that somehow sounds like the e-book reader you've been waiting for, you can order one now and get free worldwide shipping.

BEBOOK eBook reader
Friday, May 9th 2008 by Chris Davies


Netherlands company Endless Ideas have released a fresh eBook, the BEBOOK. Seemingly a rebrand of the Chinese Hanlin V3, the device uses a 6-inch 600 x 800 e-paper display and is capable of reading .doc, .txt, .pdf, .jpg, .htm and .rtf files. Onboard storage is 512MB, expandable via SD card, and file transfer is courtesy of a USB 1.1 connector. The company claims to be working on Mobipocket support.


As well as text, the BEBOOK is capable of playing MP3s and audiobooks. Endless Ideas claim a battery life of 7,000 page-turns, though that’s obviously reduced if you listen to audio. The reflective screen is not backlit, but it is readable in sunlight.

The BEBOOK measures in at 184 x 120 x 10mm and weighs 220g. Included is a USB cable, leather case, earphones and, ironically, a printed user manual. It’s available now, priced at €329.95 ($509) with free international shipping.

BeBook review

This review is from a technical perspective. I got my BeBook mostly for reading things like RFCs, rather then for reading novels. Most reviews seemed to cover what the device looks like, and where the buttons are, which wasn't very helpful when I looked into buying one, I wanted to know how it preformed.

Let me start by explaining that this review is done with a power user in mind, the problems I point out I imagine are specific to power users, and will not effect people buying this device to read 'proper' ebooks. For 'normal' people out there that just want to read the latest Harry Potter or whatever it is 'normal' people read, this review isn't for you! However, This review by the Gadget Show is probably more suited. When watching this review though, consider that the only reason Sony got more points then the BeBook was because the BeBook doesn't yet intergrate with a ebook distributer - hopefully by the time the Sony is out, it will.

I took the reader with me on a 3 hour train trip yesterday, and used it to read the Java NIO book. The ebook was in PDF format, and it worked as expected. The BeBook was easy to use, and it's hard to find fault with it's performance yesterday. I left with a full battery (still showed full bars, even though I'd used it for a couple of hours already), I left it on during the day for several hours, read about 80 pages, and the battery is still showing as full! I expect this device could be used by heavy readers for a full week of commuting without needing to charge, and even then it charges via USB, so could easily be charged from your laptop, or a portable charger such as the freeloader. In the video I said that the image scaling in PDFs wasn't so great, but I've just loaded up that PDF, and it turns out that the PDF itself is pretty low quality for images. So despite what the video says, PDF scaling might be fine.

I've thrown emails back and forth with the Marketing Manager, who seems like a friendly guy. From my conversations with him, I feel assured the company is moving in the right direction, and is committed to providing the features required to make this device the winner out of the soon to be released Sony Reader. The problem is that the Sony is only supporting it's own DRM format, which means you'll have to pay whatever Sony want for books. The BeBook is open, and I believe that it will be adopting the mobi format. Whilst I haven't tried the Sony Reader, I believe that this fact is sufficient to justify the slightly higher cost of the BeBook. I also feel that you're more likely to get a useful response for any feature requests/bug reports that you might have with the BeBook - I can't imagine it's easy to communicate effectively with a company the size of Sony.

I think.... I hope.... we're about to see ebook readers take off in a big way. Ideally, every morning I'll unplug my reader from my PC, and it will have that days news papers on, my RSS feeds, and an periodicals. I hope publishers realise the power this technology will give them too - it doesn't only help save the planet (less trees, less CO2 transporting dead trees, making ink, etc) - but has real commercial value for them. It will be possible to customise their publications specifically for the individual downloading it, possibly targeting adverts to specific people. Some people might fear this kind of targeted advertising, but if it reduces the cost of the publication, I'm all for it. Personally I'd rather see adverts for beer, computers, cars etc, then I would for the latest line of makeup!

To summarise, for the UK market I think there's 3 main options for ebook readers. There's the Iliad, which is bigger (that's up to you to decide if it's a good thing or not), and has a touch screen. But for £450, it wasn't really an option for me. The Sony Reader will be retailing for £199, but has the downsides listed above. The BeBook is £229 (I can give you a discount on that, but I'm still awaiting to know exactly how much). There might be other options I've missed, but I did spend a while looking at the options. Overall, I'm really pleased I purchased the BeBook, traveling for so long yesterday I was pleased to trade in my book for the much lighter ebook reader.

Update: I didn't notice this on the BeBook site, but a reader fo my blog pointed it out to me, so I thought I'd make it clear here.
From november/december 2008 Bebook will also have RSS news feeds support and Wifi.

Och, i tak by być całkowicie fair wobec wszystkich: BeBook to rebranding Hanlina V3.

Recenzje troche nie pasują do polskiej sytuacji. Kindle nie mamy, Sony PRSa u nas nie sprzedaje, a przy odrobinie pogłówkowania można kupić Hanlina za cenę niższą niż PRSa z importu. Poza tym nikt nie zauważa że hanlin ma djvu, który całkiem przyzwoicie działa.

BeBook za 1100 zł jest IMO zdecydowanie nieopłacalnym zakupem i Sony PRS 505 bije go na głowę.

Bo ściąganie z Litwy/Ukrainy/whatever to nie to samo, co zakup na Allegro.

BeBook za 1100 zł jest IMO zdecydowanie nieopłacalnym zakupem i Sony PRS 505 bije go na głowę.

From end of 2008 BeBook will also have RSS news feeds support and Wifi. Then it's not only a bookreader, but a portable newspaper too. With this feature you can download and read your favorite magazine or news wherever you are! See also www.mobipocket.com for the latest overview of all free rss newsfeeds for your BeBook.

Tutaj się nie zgodze. Co prawda BEBOOK jest droższy od Sony PRS'a

ale za to obsługuje dużo więcej formatów, dla porównania:

BEBOOK - pdf, mobi, prc, epub, lit, txt, fb2, doc, html, rtf, djvu, wol, ppt, mbp, chm, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, rar, zip, mp3
Sony - BBeB, txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, gif, bmp, png, mp3, aac

a to już nie lada zaleta i na pewno przy tych cenach warta dopłaty.

Poza tym w standardzie obsługa polskich znaków i polskie menu bez potrzeby flashowania.

Także wychodzą często update'y i są dodawane do obsługi kolejne formaty.
Wychodzą również alternatywne wersje softu do BEBOOK'a - jak OPENINKPOT, który zaczyna się rozwijać.

Osobiście testuje BEBOOK'a juz ponad tydzień i jestem zachwycony, a wygląd to kwestia gustu, moim zdaniem podczas czytania BEBOOK mniej rozprasza wzrok od Sonego, co też nie jest bez znaczenia.

Czyż nie jest to jakaś alternatywa? Chyba BEBOOK jednak nie jest całkiem beznadziejną ofertą na polskim rynku, a moze wręcz przeciwnie?

Podsumowując: BeBook ma DOC + PRC + DJVU. O ile nie korzystamy z niczego, co jest tylko w DJVU (i nie daje się skonwertować do innego formatu), nie ma różnicy (o ile content w PRC jest dostępny w innym formacie, zazwyczaj IMO jest).

I tak w PRSie wszystko kończy jako LRF.

Z tym się właśnie nie zgadzam.

jak mam tyle płacić, to wezmę od Romualda, bo oferuje to samo, tylko o 100 zł taniej, o ile pamiętam (po 990 zł chyba było).

Cena 1090,00 zł za sztukę (plus koszty wysyłki). Cena zależna od kursu dolara.