{"id":39,"date":"2005-01-10T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-01-10T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T16:05:52","slug":"new_ebook_sighting_hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/new_ebook_sighting_hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"new ebook sighting (hardware)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cybook2.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/cybook2.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"91\" align=\"right\"\/>a french company has released a new ebook, the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/bookeen.com\/Cybook\/Default.aspx?selectionm=1\">Cybook<\/a><\/b>, which seems to have a decent size-screen (10&#8243; diagonal) and runs most of the e-book software formats.<br \/>\nbut  . . . it&#8217;s very heavy (2.2 pounds), has a relatively low resolution (72 dpi running at 800&#215;600), won&#8217;t be visible outside; doesn&#8217;t come standard with wireless connectivity etc.<br \/>\ncontrast to the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dottocomu.com\/b\/archives\/002571.html\">Sony LIbrie<\/a><\/b> which has similar dimensions but is only 1\/4&#8243; thick and weighs only 8oz., and uses an <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr70.html\">e-ink<\/a><\/b> substrate rather than an LED so it is visible even in sunlight.   of course the Librie is black and white, doesn&#8217;t support video, doesn&#8217;t connect to the net etc.<br \/>\nmy guess is we&#8217;re still a couple of years away from a reading device that people can really get excited about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a french company has released a new ebook, the Cybook, which seems to have a decent size-screen (10&#8243; diagonal) and runs most of the e-book software formats. but . . . it&#8217;s very heavy (2.2 pounds), has a relatively low resolution (72 dpi running at 800&#215;600), won&#8217;t be visible outside; doesn&#8217;t come standard with wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ideal-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}