Here’s a follow-up to our Cybook post–a message from Laurent Picard of Bookeen, the company behind the machine:
We recently heard from a 97-year-old grandmother (she was 96 when her granddaughter bought it for her), in the south of France, who is now able to read novels in large print. Though we also designed the Cybook to meet this need, it always impresses and comforts us to receive such feedbacks. In fact, a not so small fraction of our customers are vision-impaired people. We develop special “Vision” graphical interfaces for them.
What better use of e-books? Speaking of hardware, I’ve now gotten my hands on a REB1200 and eventually will be passing on my impressions. Now here’s the twist. Thanks to Laurent, I’ll have a Cybook demo unit to compare the REB1200 with. The two units should also be useful eventually in OpenReader development. Merci beaucoup, Laurent! A staunch supporter of e-book standards, Laurent is experimenting with Open eBook-type formats by way of the BooReader, a one of the programs included with the Cybook.
Detail: Might the 97-year-old be among the world’s oldest e-book users? Anyone know of an older user?
