Cybook Opus is a good read

Fwd Tech  Wednesday 23 September 2009

Introducing the lightest, pocket-sized e-reader around: the Cybook Opus

Paper’s so over-rated. And it’s made of trees. You, my friend, need to join the electronic book revolution. The latest e-reader to hit the market is the Cybook Opus – the lightest around at just 150g!

Despite weighing less than a small bag of sugar, the Cybook Opus has a five-inch screen and can still store around 1,000 books on its 1GB of internal storage. Not even Stephen Fry’s going to get through that many novels anytime soon. But if you still want more you can also add a microSD card and cram an entire library into its 0.4-inch-thick frame.

It can read a number of foramts too, including HTML, Txt and PDF, and Bookeen claims that the Cybook Opus’s 200dpi ePaper screen provides a paperlike high contrast appearance, and thanks to the EInk technology it has a really low power consumption. Unfortunately there’s no touchscreen and no Wi-Fi so you won’t be able to top up your bookshelf on the go.

Still, the Cybook Opus has something most other e-readers don’t: a small price tag. This bad boy costs just $280… or around £170 in British speak.