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Caught this article over at Extremetech talking about the Brookeen Cybook ebook reader. It seems to have some nice features and all, but I was simply shocked by the battery life and the cost of it. It is going to retail around $738! "The Cybook is also going offer a lot less battery life (3-5 hours on a single charge of its Lithium Ion battery vs. 10,000 pages for 4 AAA batteries in the LIBRIe), a considerably heavier package (The LIBRIe weighs in at 10 ounces, the Cybook tips the scale at 35 ounces!), the same screen resolution, 800x600, along with a somewhat heftier price, $738 to the Sony product's $489.
Bookeen flat out says that the "Cybook is the world's first true open multi-format e-book reader; it supports many e-book formats like PRC, PDB, HTML, RTF and TXT. No more printing, with the Cybook you can read all the digital documents you want."
At that price, you could just about buy yourself a small library of paper based books.
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