What kind of screen does the Cybook offer?

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 Cybook Odyssey shows an outstanding 6” inch screen, utilizing the best e-ink screen from E Ink®: the E Ink® Pearl screen. 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 Odyssey 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 of 600 x 800 pixels resolution corresponding to 167 dpi (dots per inch).

When you read, you have no eyestrain and it definitely gives you the experience of reading from paper.