Bookeen Cybook Orizon Touchscreen Ebook Reader

The Bookeen Cybook Orizon joins a growing group of ebook readers with built-in Wi-Fi, which allows you to download material without having to hook the device up to a PC. The $240 (as of August 5, 2011) Orizon also has a 6-inch touchscreen electronic-paper display, which makes for easy and intuitive menu navigation, text selections, and page turns using your fingertip. Wi-Fi and touchscreen are great technologies, but on the Orizon they don't always work well in tandem, which I discovered when I tried to shop for books using the Orizon's built-in browser. Because pages loaded slowly on the Wi-Fi connection, tapping a book from a search results list (for example) often produced unintended selections, making the whole experience painfully time-consuming and frustrating. In most other respects, the Orizon was much more satisfactory. Like its pocket-size sibling, the Cybook Opus, the Orizon--available with a black or white plastic case--is thin for its 6-inch screen size and 7.5-by-4.9-inch footprint: It's not quite three-tenths of an inch thick. That's about the same thickness as the current 3G/Wi-Fi Amazon Kindle, but the Kindle doesn't have a touchscreen. The Orizon weighs about the same as that third-generation Kindle, 8.6 ounces to the Kindle's 8.7 ounces. While most of the dedicated e-readers we've seen use E Ink's electrophoretic displays, the Orizon uses a touchscreen from E Ink competitor Sipix. Like the E Ink Pearl panel on the Kindle and other competitors, it boasts 16 shades of gray and a screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels (167 dpi). The display supports multitouch, so you can make fonts larger or smaller and zoom in on websites by pinching and zooming with your fingertips. In my tests, I found the screen quite responsive to page turns, accomplished with fingertip swipes from right to left or left to right. But pinching and zooming sometimes required two or three attempts. Tapping on the lower left of the screen (most of the time the corner is marked with several translucent concentric quarter circles) produces context-sensitive pop-up menus that you can also summon and navigate using a hardware button embedded in the bezel. When you're reading, for example, the menu allows you to choose from among seven font families and 12 gradually increasing font sizes; you may also customize the page layout via options for justifying text, toggling the boldface version of your font, and hiding or showing the header and the so-called pageometer (which shows how many pages you've read out of the total number in the book).miami drunk driver accident attorneys brazilian android full crackle apk divx web player for windows 7 64 bit game call of duty modern warfare 2 highly compressed cx25878 vista drivers angry birds for samsung champ gt c3303i 3 com lan card driver samsung digimax 350se driver d link easy search utility mac shank 2 pc demo