Cheapest prices for Cybook Gen3 ebook reader

Cheapest prices for Bebook ebook reader

Bebook ebook reader

This black ebook reader features the same 6 inch eink screen of the Cybook Gen3 and the Sony PRS505.

Where it differs is in the surround and the operating controls. While the Cybook Gen3 has a minimalist look with very little in the way of visible buttons, and the Sony has a more functional set of front buttons, the Bebook ebook reader comes somewhere in the middle.

In size, it is slightly bigger than the other two to allow for the controls below the screen, but still a small and effective featherweight reader, with just the same high quality ebook reading experience you’d expect of the 6 inch eink diisplay.

Whether you want the Bebook, the Sony or the Cybook depends purely on aesthetics and which you like the look of. In use or carrying about, you wouldn’t notice any difference. You can add to the storage of course with an SD card, and battery life is similar for all.

Sure the firmware in each is slightly different, but all the main 6 inch ebook readers are great to use and have a mass of ebooks to download, either free for out of copyright works or purchased for current books. You’ll love it, whichever one you get, so don’t worry about your decision. Go with your heart.

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Try this mains USB charger for your ebook reader

Ebook readers charge their batteries by USB.

Now you’d normally do this by connecting your ebook reader to one of the USB ports your PC, but there are always times when we’re not near a PC and the battery on our ebook reader is fading.

Enter the mains USB charger.    For less than a tenner, this brilliant little charger plugs into the mains, so no computer needed, and connects to your ebook reader by means of your normal USB cable.

Now I know that your ebook reader battery lasts for ages between charges, but just pop this little charger in your bag or backpack when you go on holiday or on that business trip and you’ll never need to worry about how to recharge your reader again. I often find it’s easier to recharge my ebook battery by plugging this into the nearest electrical mains socket than to interrupt what I’m doing and connect to my PC.

And another benefit of the mains USB charger is that you can still use your reader while it’s charging. If you charge from your computer’s USB port, then as you know your reading has to come to a halt. But with the mains charger, just carry on reading as normal. And instead of 12 hours or so for a full charge, your reader usually gets fully tanked up in less than four hours.

Get one, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

And if the makers of ebook readers had any sense, they’d supply one of these great little battery chargers with every ebook.

Share your ebook reader with an SD memory card

Ebook readers can hold loads and loads of books – that’s one of the nice things about the printed word being so small in electronic terms. A writer’s whole lifetime output can be stored in a few megabytes – less than the space of a single Spice Girls CD. And there are few writers (apart from JK Rowling) that are worth less to literature than the Spice Girls are to music.

Anyway what this means is that you can carry round your whole ebook library on a single SD card like the one in your digital camera. Thousands and thousands of books will fit on to a 4 Gigabyte SD card, and I make sure that I keep a backup of all my stuff on an SD card in my wallet so that wherever I am, if I happen not to have my ebook reader with me, I can just pop my SD card into one of my mates’ readers and off I go.

The downside of course is that they do the same with my ebook reader, and as often as not when I want my latest literary fix, I have to turf Ned or Sarah off my ebook reader, remove their SD card and plug my own in.

SD cards have plunged in price since I first got one a few years back for my digital camera, and now you can buy them along with the groceries.

But be careful, to some extent you still get what you pay for and saving a pound or two by not buying a named card from somebody like Sandisk could be a false economy. I always use Sandisk SD cards for my ebook readers, and they’ve never let me down yet. Ned on the other hand could tell you horror stories about losing his entire library not once but twice by using SD cards from someone else, and keeping his extra secure backup copy on a card of the same make.

Even a great Sandisk 4Gig SD card will cost a lot less than a tenner, so you’re saving very little, and to me at any rate the peace of mind is worth far more than that.

How about this hard disk storage for all your ebooks?

One of the great things about ebooks is that they take up very little storage space. You can get a dozen or more ebooks in the same space it takes to store a single MP3 music track.

And anybody who’s enough of a reader to look at our site here will know which we prefer here – twelve volumes of great literature, or Colbie Caillat droning on about life’s injustices. No contest, the literature wins every time.

Your Sony reader’s memory will hold several hundred books on its own, and then adding an optional SD card for a few pounds can increase this to thousands. That should be enough for most people, I hear you say. But think again.

Some of us, especially here in the office, like to store our media all together – we’ve a vast library of tens of thousands of ebooks, together with all Michael Jackson’s back catalogue in FLAC, the complete works of JS Bach, and every episode of Rocky ever screened. Together with any other music and videos that take our fancy. And we like to have them all to hand so we can take them with us when we visit our mates, or go away on hols or business trips.

And this is why we love the Verbatim 1 Terabyte USB hard disk drive.

For under £70 – yes £70 – you can get a whopping terabyte of disk storage to plug into your PC, your laptop or your netbook. Yet it’s so small and light at less than a kilo, that you can slip it in your pocket.

Even if you’ve got a huge ebook library like ours, this Verbatim drive is so vast that you can store all your ebooks, your music and still leave room for plenty of films and videos.

This Verbatim hard disk spins at a staggering 7,200 rpm, so it’s fast too.

So there you have it: huge, fast and cheap. What more can you want?

Click the link below to check out this fabulous external USB hard disk drive, and I guarantee you won’t be able to resist it.