Bookeen

Bookeen is a French provider of e -books and e - book readers, based in Paris, France.

History

Bookeen was founded in 2003 by two former engineers of the company Cytale which the first European company offering an e-book, post-bankruptcy on the basis of acquired rights and patents. Among the acquired products and the e -book reader Cybook Gen1 belonged.

Devices

• Cybook Gen1 (2006), ten inch, 600 × 800 LCD display with 256 colors, 1kg
• Cybook Gen3 (2007 ), six inches, Resolution 600 × 800, 174 g
• Cybook Opus (2009), five inches, Resolution 600 × 800, 150 g
• Cybook Orizon (2010 ), six -inch, touch screen, resolution 600 × 800, 245 g
• Cybook Odyssey Cybook Odyssey and 2013 edition, both six- inch touch screen and WiFi, resolution 600 × 800, 195 g
• Cybook Odyssey HD Front Light ( 2012), with lighting and higher resolution ( 758 × 1024)

Cybook Gen3

Original manufacturer of the Cybook Gen3 ( successor to the Gen1 ) in 2007 was the Taiwan-based company Netronix Inc., which sells these readers under the names EB -100 and EB -600 to various intermediaries such as Bookeen. Bookeen and other companies, these devices then provided with their name and their own firmware and sell them on. On the Cybook Gen3 older (EB -100 ), the free Linux distribution OpenInkpot be used as an alternative to the firmware. About one accessible only by opening the case serial interface, the boot process can be followed by Linux and are accessed using Busybox to internal file structures. Later Gen3 from 2009 corresponded to the EB- 600 The 174 g heavy Gen3 measures 118 x 188 x 8.5 mm and offers a mini USB port an SD card slot. Successor to 2009 was the Cybook Opus.

Cybook Odyssey HD Front Light

In the fall of 2012 Bookeen Cybook Odyssey presented the HD with illuminated 6 inches (15.24 cm) display and a resolution of 758 × 1024 pixels. This e -book reader offers a touch screen and keys to scroll. The software allows extensive customization to represent the flow of text, such as activation of hyphenation and ligatures, and scrolling text display from PDFs (PDF reflow ). Weights vary: Bookeen 180 g ( data sheet), Thalia and Community 192 g