Many like to call these e-readers, or e-book readers or even e-paper display devices, like the Kindle, BeBook is a device with a display that looks exactly like as if you were reading from paper. Of course, compared to paper, this is much more friendlier to the environment in that you’re not wasting any paper.
The BeBook which retailed at £249.99 both online and at the show, can read almost any popular file formats that you can think of, pdf, mobi, prc, epub, lit, txt, fb2, doc, html, rtf, djvu, wol, ppt, mbp, chm, bmp, jpg, png, gif, tif, rar, zip, mp3 (for audio books) as well as RSS newsfeeds. With an incredibly long battery life, one charge will last 7000 pageturns, though it may be on the low side in terms of internal memory (512MB), the BeBook makes up for that by having aSD memory card slot.
Check out the video we captured below (sorry it was taken in quite a noisy environment!)…
I’m still unsure about e-readers, on the plus side they do save wasting paper, books can be downloaded instantly and there is a big selection of free out of copyright material available. On the other hand I only read one book at a time (I may have three or four on the go, but will only read one book in a given session) so the fact I can store zillions of books on it seems a little redundant and worst of all I’ve noticed some books are actually more expensive to download than to buy in paperback.