BeBook – Ebook Reader – The 1st Competitor To The Australian Kindle

I met recently with Harold Wiegers the Australian distributor of the BeBook – the ebook reader that both Dymocks and The Co-Op Bookshop are selling.

Unlike the Australian Kindle by Amazon.com, the BeBook does not tie you into buying all your books through Amazon and offers support for a very large number of eBook file formats as well as being able to display Microsoft Word documents, Adobe PDF and the popular mobi and epub formats.

I have a loan BeBook and will be reviewing it this week and posting a BeBook Buyers Guide shortly. For the moment, here are the impressive specs from the BeBook website.

Bebook’s unique features:

• Bebook reads all popular document formats, also free ebooks and any pdf!
• No shopping limitations: buy or download books, news or magazines anywhere (anywhere!) and read them on your Bebook!
• Change font types and fontsize while reading
• One battery charge last up to 7,000 page turns (you can change batteries of the BeBook yourself)
• 512MB internal memory and SD card slot so you can exchange books and documents with friends or colleagues
• Supports Mobipocket and RSS feeds via Mobipocket
• Open software standard (lifetime firmware updates are free!)
• 1 year full warranty
• Leather protection case is included with your Bebook

150 Books pre-installed
Start reading with 150 books pre-installed. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Goethe, Grimm, Les Misserables, Leonardo Da Vinci, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Huckle Barry Fin, Tom Sawyer, Jules Verne and many others.

Key Features:

• Easy accessible book library menu
• Supported file formats: pdf, mobi drm, prc, epub drm lit, txt, fb2, doc, html, rtf, djvu, wol, ppt, mbp, chm, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, rar, zip, mp3.
• 512MB internal memory, enough for at least 1.000 books
• SD memorycard slot included
• Built-in menu language support: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Ukraine, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Bulgarian, Estonian, Polish
• Change fonttype while reading
• Increase/decrease font size of ereader display
• Add bookmark to a page
• Zoom page
• Sort library by title, filename, size
• Play mp3 files and audiobooks (Actual batterylife will decrease playing mp3 files on your BeBook ereader.

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: 184mm(l)*120mm(w)*10mm(h)
• Weight : 220gr (incl. battery)
• Display: ePaper, 600*800 (6 inch) (E-Ink technology)
• Internal storage: 512MB flashmemory
• I/O: 3.5mm audiojack, USB 1.1 Port, SD slot (extendable up to 4GB)
• Power Supply: 3.7V Li-ION battery 950mAh
• Operating Temperature 0ºC to 40ºCBox

Contents:

• BeBook
• Leather case, black
• USB cable
• User Manual
• Earphone

Visit the BeBook website now for more details

Related Books:

1. Bebook Ebook Reader- Australian Buyers Guide
2. Three Key Features To Consider When Buying An eBook Reader
3. Kindle v BeBook Comparison Chart