Shiny New Toy

Have been feeling ill the last few days so it was nice surprise when the postman turned up with a nice new gadget for me to play with. :)

I read a lot of ebooks but I’ve been suffering a bit staring at bright screens so I’ve finally invested in something with an e-ink screen which is much closer to reading off paper.

I spent quite a while hunting around and was tempted by the Sony Ereader and it’s stroke-able shininess but I wasn’t so keen on the proprietary format and lack of support for other formats. Finally decided on a BeBook which is a rebranded Hanlin V3 from China which reads just about anything but has the added bonus of a load of developers creating some nice custom firmware for it at OpenInkpot.org.

Played with the factory firmware for about half an hour before flashing OpenInkpot. :)

I might write a review once I’ve had a little more time with it.

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