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Bookeen Cybook Gen3 video review

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By Sandra Vogel
Reviewed 09 November 2008
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£220.00

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    • 1: Bookeen Cybook Gen3 - eBook Reader
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  • Reviewed by Sandra Vogel
  • 09 November 2008
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Bookeen Cybook Gen3 details

Value
9/10
Usability
10/10
Features
8/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£220.00

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8:23 PM on 11 July, 2008

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Dear Sandra,





I am wondering how's the PDF support on the newest Bookeen Cybook?





From what I heard of the other devices (Sony's Digital Reader & Amazon's Kindle), PDF support isn't great (can't zoom, nor is the display of PDFs that great).





If you give me an insight on this, I would be most grateful.

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1:21 PM on 10 November, 2008

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The Sony Reader is available in the UK...

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3:29 PM on 10 November, 2008

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John McLean

5:20 PM on 10 November, 2008

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What gets me is the outrageous price of eBooks though - digital downloads should be significantly cheaper than hard copies, and until they are, I can't see eBook readers becoming anything more than a niche product. I know there are loads of out of copyright classics available for free, but for recent novels the going rate seems to be about £6-7, which is no less than you'd pay for the paper version, which are regularly on 3 for 2 or similar offers. One extreme example - the eBook of "Devil May Care" is £15.19 on Waterstones.com, whereas you can buy the hardback, delivered, for £7.59 from Amazon. Where's the logic in that?

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6:34 PM on 10 November, 2008

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@Ed: Sorry, could you have posted a more ignorant comment on the website you write for?





"It is the technology used on the iLiad, by Sony in its Reader (still not available in the UK, come on Sony)"

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11:15 PM on 10 November, 2008

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There seems to be a certain level of disconnect between the two reviewers... Any knd of conclusion on that? Tend to agree with Sandra, her phone reviews are very objective, while some other reviewers on this site somehow always seem to go with the brand (which is not exactly why someone would read reviews...)

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9:14 AM on 11 November, 2008

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Just to clarify, Sandra wrote the text review a few months ago - thus the comment about the Sony reader not being available yet. I recently wrote the video review and, because of the way our site is currently laid out, have attached the video to the existing review and republished it. This is something we've done with most of the video reviews as we're still waiting for a tweak to the front page layout that will promote the video content. Evidently most people missed Sandra's review the first time round and this has caused confusion.





As for the comment about going 'with the brand'. Well, in this case it's pretty clear cut. The Cybook is more expensive, is of significantly poorer build quality, and the Sony reader comes with a CD of 200 free books. Admittedly the books are all free to download anyway but this way saves you the hassle.





As for a general observation. Well, I'm struggling to think of what products we review on here that aren't 'branded'. And besides which, more often than not, unbranded products are not universally available and of poorer quality. Lastly, there are so many knockoffs that fill the shelves of market stalls around the world that we could probably swap our website over completely to those sort of products and not drop our level of output. Somehow I don't think we'd be quite as successful nor our readers so satisfied if we did do that.

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9:37 AM on 11 November, 2008

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@Ed: the 'branded' observation goes to point out the significant brand bias toward certain manufacturers (Apple, Sony, Fuji). These always get significantly better reviews that the competition, despite not only being poorer in terms of specifications or value, but also from a customer experience perspective. The products of the competition are then presented in an unfavourable light as well (you will notice this from the number of negative comments the article receives (Apple, Omnia, Touch Diamond immediatelyjumps to mind).

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10:16 AM on 11 November, 2008

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The number of or contents of comments tend to have little bearing on whether the reviewer was right, wrong, biased, or anything else - there will always be people that disagree with the writers opinions. What determines the level of commentary is the interest the product garners. The three products/companies you mention are all of great interest to many people so they've had a lot of comments. Some random 22inch monitor has no comments because people aren't interested.





And beside which, you're completely wrong. The brands you mention do not always get significantly better reviews than other products. I would cite our opinions of the Macbook Air as being a prime example but they never sent us one to review because we kept slamming it in news articles.





The only thing I will concede is that, as a general rule, we value quality and ease of use over raw features as that's what most of the public want; a device that does what they need and does it well. Also for the most part we take a 'you get what you pay for attitude'. Of course enthusiasts will tend to think the other way round but then we're not an enthusiast's site.





So while you could argue the Touch Diamond has more features and costs less than the iPhone, the features of the iPhone are so easy to use, you value them more than those on the Diamond. The iPhone is also better made than the Diamond.

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11:09 AM on 11 November, 2008

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So, in short, you guys need a less slack website developer. :P





I think this device looks much nicer than the Sony Reader though.

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