the goss

I want a Bebook

After doing much net research, it seems that the BeBook by Endless Ideas is the one that would suit me, so far anyway, though I have a feeling that something better will come along before they drop their prices. There is a mini version and a larger version, that I would call the standard size and the one I would want. The Mini is considerably cheaper and seems to have the same features, except for screen size I think.



The Bebook comes in many guises so it would seem here is some Australian domain web sites, there seems to be quite a lot of reselling of this product.

Links to sellers

Ecoreader

BeBook

International sites below

My BeBook

Features

It's important to note the supported file formats below

* Easy accessible book library menu
* Supported file formats: pdf, mobi, prc, epub, 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*

Free e-books, PDFs

You need to load it with some books to read, you can of course also buy latest ebooks online as well, this list is for free public domain files.

Project Gutenberg Australia

a treasure-trove of literature

Many Books

the best ebooks at the best price: free!

Project Gutenberg Main site

From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).

Feed Books

A place to discover and publish e-books

Convert existing PDFs etc.

Calibre ebook Management

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

* Library Management
* E-book conversion
* Syncing to e-book reader devices
* Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
* Comprehensive e-book viewer
* Content server for online access to your book collection

Different types of ereaders

List of e-book readers

The BeBook, Ecoreader all seem to be $500 AUD, I think I will wait a while as I said I think more products will appear with more features and will no doubt be cheaper.

I can wait ;o)