What is the Cybook?
The Cybook is an electronic book, it is a portable device that lets you read as you do on paper everywhere you go.
You can now take along all your digital documents with you on a device as small and light as a paperback. The Cybook is perfectly readable in a wide range of lighting conditions, including direct sunlight.

What does the Cybook look like?
The Cybook simply looks stunning with its frosty black finish and its navigation pad on its front side.
With the size of a paperback, the thickness of a magazine and a weight of a mobile phone, the Cybook is truly mobile and can be easily arranged in a hand bag. The Cybook design is definitely beautiful and stylish.

Easy on the eyes?
The Cybook screen 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.

How long does the Cybook battery last?
As long as the Cybook E Ink® screen displays the same page, there is no power consumption. This technology drastically reduces power needs. Thus, the Cybook offers an impressive battery lifetime of 8,000 page flips on a full charged battery. It corresponds to a two (2) month battery lifetime for an average reading pace of 80 pages per day.

What can I read?
Almost any digital documents. The Cybook supports many open formats like HTML, Txt, PRC, PalmDoc and PDF. These formats are commonly found on Internet and can be easily generated by many text editors. All these files support font resizing except PDF files which can be zoomed.

Where can I buy contemporary titles?
The Cybook supports the Mobipocket^TM secured eBook format. This encrypted format enables the Cybook user to get access to one of the biggest catalogue of contemporary copyrighted titles with publishers like Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster or Harlequin.
You will find more than 200 eBook retailers on the web which propose Mobipocket^TM files.

How many books can I carry?
The 64 MB Cybook internal memory can contain several tens of books. You can also extend your storage capacity with SD cards storing several thousands of digital documents.

How can I add new files to my Cybook?
Connect the Cybook with the USB cable to any host computer and drag and drop your files. That's it, your new content is in the Cybook, ready to be displayed.
No software installation, no synchronization process, no file conversion and most of all the Cybook is compatible with any kind of host computer (Windows®, Linux, Mac®).

What else?
The Cybook can display many image types like JPEG, GIF and PNG. These images are automatically resized and displayed as on a digital frame device.
The Cybook can also play MP3 files along with the reading of a book.

The Cybook is dedicated to digital reading.
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.
Read books
With the Cybook, you can access more than 55,000 digital contemporary books from hundreds of publisher sources like Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Harlequin…. These digital books are in Mobipocket^TM format, the available catalogue grows very quickly and gain several hundreds titles per month.
The digital book version is most of the time 20 to 30% less expensive than its paper counterpart and more than 200 digital book stores propose Mobipocket^TM digital books.

Read documents
The Cybook can read different kind of digital documents like classical books in HTML or TXT, user's manual in PDF…
Cybook supports all these document formats directly and without any conversion. To transfer your documents to the Cybook, you just need to connect your Cybook with your USB cable and copy your data in the Cybook memory. You can also use a SD card and copy your data in it.

Read news
The Cybook offers the possibility to download and read RSS feeds and online information from famous websites, using Mobipocket^TM eNews software.

Display photos
The Cybook can act as a digital frame to display photos and pictures in JPEG, GIF or PNG formats. These images are automatically resized, converted to grey levels and dithered offering an impressive rendering quality.

Play music
The Cybook can also act as a MP3 player. Thanks to its stereo headphones connection, you can listen to your favorite music along your reading.

Size	4.7" x 7.4" x 0.3" 118 x 188 x 8.5 mm
Weight	6.13 ounces -174 g (battery included)
Screen	6" E Ink® screen [4.8"x3.6"- 122mmx91mm] 600x800 pixels, 166 dpi B&W, 4 grayscale Daylight readable No backlight Portrait and landscape mode
Sound	2.5mm stereo headphone plug
Controls	11 buttons (No touchscreen)
Battery	Rechargeable built-in Li-Polymer battery (1000 mAh) 8,000 page flips battery life
Processor	200MHz
ROM memory	8 MB
RAM memory	16 MB
Storage memory	64 MB Data Flash
Formats	HTML, Txt, PRC, PalmDoc, PDF Secured MobipocketTM
Connectivity	USB Client (v2.0) - Mini USB B connector SD Card slot

What's in the Box?
The box of the Cybook contains everything you need to get started! Included in the box:

• the Cybook eBook reading device (12 months guarantee)
• USB cable
• Quick start guide