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Binding: Electronics Brand: Franklin Electronics EAN: 0084793991509 Item Dimensions: Label: Franklin Electronics Manufacturer: Franklin Electronics Model: EB-500 Modem Description: None MPN: EB-500 Publisher: Franklin Electronics Studio: Franklin Electronics Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Want to be the first to experience a whole new concept in reading? You're reading about it right now ? the Franklin Rocket eBook.The Rocket eBook is a compact, hand-held electronic book that lets you purchase books online, download them in minutes and enjoy hours of uninterrupted reading absolutely anywhere. About the size of an average paperback, it stores up to 10 books or 4,000 pages of text and graphics in your own personal digital library. Catch up on your reading any time during a busy day ? at home, in the office on the road, in all lighting conditions, indoors or out. Simple to use and ergonomically designed for right or left-hand use, portrait or landscape orientation, the Franklin Rocket eBook is an indispensable tool for today's on-the-go lifestyle. A unique, high resolution back-lit screen and long battery life make reading a pleasure. Amazon.com Review: The Rocket eBook fits in the palm of your hand and stores the equivalent of 10 novels. Why fuss with bulky paperbacks on your travels when you can download them through the Internet and then read them at your convenience? Some electronics manufactures have sought to replace the paperback novel with an electronic reader. The concept is simple: Create a handled computing device that can store the text of several books and thus negate the need to buy the physical books. The execution is not simple: Printed books are so perfectly well suited for their intended task that no battery-operated, LCD-sporting device can compete with them. Still, the Franklin Rocket eBook presents a worthy and fun alternative to the printed medium, if not a replacement. You control the unit with three buttons and four icons on its touch-sensitive screen, which let you select a stored title, navigate the title's chapters and pages, and decide how you want to display them (horizontally or vertically or for left or right-handed holding). The Rocket eBook comes with its owner's manual, the Random House Webster's Concise Dictionary, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland built-in. To purchase more books, you must install the included RocketLibrarian software and register the Rocket eBook online. In our tests, the process of acquainting ourselves with the device, installing the software, and registering the Rocket eBook online took about 45 minutes. Using a provider of RocketEdition-compatible titles on the Internet, we located and purchased Daniel Brown's Digital Fortress in about five minutes, and we downloaded it in about two minutes. Transferring the book from our PC to the Rocket eBook took only 30 seconds. For casual reading, even at only 22 ounces, the unit seems heavy after holding it for a few minutes--much heavier than a normal paperback. The unit's arrow keys let you page forward and backward, but not as rapidly as you can "thumb" through dozens of pages in a paperback. Also, you have to "pan" to see graphic images that are too large to fit on the LCD screen. Overall, the Rocket eBook's reading experience is not as pleasant as we've come to expect from reading an ordinary paperback. Still, if you want to read your favorite books but don't want to carry them in stacks as you travel, the Rocket eBook offers a great alternative--the ability to store several titles in a convenient, compact, portable package. --Mike Brown Pros:
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 Rating:  - If You Can Find It, Buy It!I love my eBook! When I travel, I sometimes have 40 titles in it, and never run out of things to read. I especially love the way I can download free books from the Gutenberg Project and other public domain sites and load them into the reader. I can download HTML pages, and portions of web sites and have them to read. The backlit screen is very easy to read and requires no external light. You can adjust the light to accomodate a dark room or direct sunlight. I collect web pages and e-mail I've not ... Read More Rating: - Well worth having "if".My Rocket eBook is most enjoyable in the dark hours of night if you have problems sleeping as I do. No more flashlights and no lamps on to disturb your partner. It travels just great.. the battery seems to last forever, you don't even need to pack your charger if a weekend trip. The "only" complaint I have is the lack of Best Sellers available and especially, the cost of the few that are. We all have the common sense to realize that if the publishers are NOT spending their money on printing, ... Read More Rating: - This is a terrific product!I have had one of these for about two months, and am totally hooked on it. It has some readily apparent advantages (portability, ease of use, etc.), but some advantages that are not so apparent--it has focused my reading on some classics that I missed earlier in my reading life (as most e-texts are currently non-copyrighted materials; I finally got through Moby Dick) and it has helped to improve my computer skills (to get the absolute most out of it, you need to be able to do some somewhat sophisticated ... Read More Rating: - Useful where I didn't think it wouldThis is a very useful product, particularly for downloading lengthy texts from the web. I have found it very useful for studying annual reports, speeches from CEOs, etc. The software allows simple downloading and then one can carry these useful texts with you. Fabulously useful! My only regret is that it will not read PDF files. Currently, a number of the really useful things that I get come in PDF format. Right now -- in order to down load a PDF file you have to e-mail out and then download ... Read More Rating: - I'm impressed!I really love my reader. The BEST part is I can actually read in bed, which was something that really turned my opinion on e-books around. The books are a lot cheaper than regular books, I stumbled on Crossroadspub.com and am amazed at that and other sites decent prices and availability of e-books. No more out of stock books! The only bad thing about it is the weight. It does get heavy after awhile. Hopefully they'll change that in the near future! |
