BeBook Reader Captured on Video

By James Kendrick | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | 9:14 AM CT | 3 comments | Tweet This (3)

We love us some e-book action on jkOnTheRun, and one e-book reader that caught our attention is the BeBook reader from the Dutch firm Endless Ideas. What makes the BeBook a solid e-book reader is all the content formats it supports: txt, pdf, doc, html, rtf, ppt, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, and even mp3s. The only DRM-protected format it handles is Mobipocket, so it’s not all cut-and-dried as it never is once DRM raises its ugly head.

The folks at The Gadget Show caught the BeBook on video and it definitely looks like a nice form and size for reading books.

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Comments (3)

Thanks for the link. It was the Gadget Show folks who shot the vid but last100.com That’s me and co.

mrspin — 9:40 AM on April 22, 2009 Reply
>>>What makes the BeBook a solid e-book reader is all the content formats it supports: txt, pdf, doc, html, rtf, ppt, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, and even mp3s.

Um, no.

What will make it worthwhile is that soon it will also do DRMed ePub, just like the Sony Reader. ePub is the file format for eBooks.

Mike Cane — 10:00 AM on April 22, 2009 Reply
We reviewed a rebadged version of the BeBook – the Pixelar E-Reader – last month:

http://www.slashgear.com/pixelar-e-reader-review-0536599/

It’s a decent unit, but the design/placement of the control keys lacks imagination.

Chris Davies — 3:56 AM on April 23, 2009 Reply