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No. The Cybook screen is not backlit. As a sheet of paper the Cybook E Ink® screen uses ambient light to enlighten the reading surface. Your Cybook is thus readable in full sunlight which is not the case for almost all standard LCD displays.
- The Cybook Gen3 has a 6 inches screen with a high resolution of 600 x 800 and 166 dpi.
- The resolution of the Cybook Opus which has a 5 inches screen, is 600 x 800 pixels and it has 200 dpi.
- The Cybook Gen3 weighs 6.13 ounces (174 grams) battery included.
- The Cybook Opus weighs 5.3 ounces (150 grams) battery included.
Not at all. The Cybook is designed for you. With few buttons and a USB cable you control everything.
To recharge the Cybook you have to connect it to a computer with the provided USB cable (mini USB).
You can also use a power adapter. It has to have the following characteristics:
The Cybook screen is viewable under a wide range of lighting conditions, including direct sunlight and possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance. Like a sheet of paper, it can be viewed from nearly any angle, doesn't show any flicker effect and has a high resolution. When you read, you have no eyestrain and it definitely gives you the experience of reading from paper.
The Cybook shows an outstanding black and white screen, utilizing a breakthrough technology: the Electronic Ink Display (E Ink®). The screen acts like a paper page made of tiny ink particles which can migrate and modify the layout of your screen in a second.
The Cybook screen is viewable under a wide range of lighting conditions, including direct sunlight and possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance. Like a sheet of paper, it can be viewed from nearly any angle, doesn't show any flicker effect and has a high resolution.
When you read, you have no eyestrain and it definitely gives you the experience of reading from paper.
The screen can be used either in portrait or landscape mode, it proposes several grey levels and use a special dithering method which enables a high quality picture rendering.
The screen is based on the VizplexTM electronic paper screen. VizplexTM is the newest, fastest and brightest electronic paper display yet from E Ink Corporation, with an 80 percent improvement in refresh rate and an 25 percent improvement in brightness over the previous version of electronic paper.
To have more details about each Cybook model we invite you to read the technical descriptions for the Gen3 and the Opus.
The battery of the Cybook is of Lithium Polymer type offering a capacity of 1000 mAh.
It can be changed if needed, as it is located in a compartment which can be opened easily. Only the batteries sold by Bookeen are accepted for the Cybook.
The battery is recharged via the Cybook
The Cybook can run in several modes:
- Normal mode, the Cybook led is switched on and the processor is running at full speed. While you play a MP3 file with the Cybook Gen3, the Cybook is running in this mode. In this mode the Cybook battery lifetime is around 3 hours.
- Sleep mode, the Cybook led is switched off and the processor is in sleep mode waiting for an interrupt to wake-up. If you are not turning a page or using a menu, the battery lifetime is one week.
- Deep sleep mode: when you press the on/off button you have a stanby screen that appears and your Cybook is in deep sleep mode. You can then quickly go back to the library by pressing again the on/off button. The battery lifetime is about 15 days for the coloured Opus and 10 days for the Gen3 Gold Edition and the white Opus.
- Off mode, the Cybook is completely switched off; you need to use the ON button to wake it up. It takes few seconds for the Cybook to be up and running. In this mode the battery lifetime depends on energy leak of the battery and the battery reach 0% capacity after more than a year.
As you get in sleep mode between each page flip and the Cybook switches off automatically after a certain delay of inactivity, the Cybook battery lifetime can vary from several hours to several month (80 page flips per day with switch-off at the end of each reading session).
You can increase your storage capacity by using an optional memory card and get an extra storage space:
On the Cybook Gen3 and the Cybook Opus, no. There is no touchscreen and no stylus on these models. You control the device with its buttons.
Our new product, the Cybook Orizon, will be tactile.
The USB cable for the Cybook is a mini USB cable. The gum around the USB connector is thinner at the end.
It is important to use the USB cable provided with the Cybook to charge the device because other mini USB cable may not fit well into the USB connector due to a gum too thick.
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