Bookeen Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight joins the lit e-reader fray

Bookeen's Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight joins the lit ereader fray

Offering a front-lit e-reader isn’t reserved just for the heaviest hitters. Bookeen is leaping into that still-exclusive club with the Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight. Its lengthily-named upgrade to the original Odyssey focuses on the read-anywhere light, and a lightweight body, as its standout aspects — at just under 6.4 ounces, it’s more featherlike than Amazon and Barnes & Noble counterparts with similarly legible screens. Claims of display superiority are a bit suspicious when Bookeen touts the same 62 percent jump in resolution that we saw in the Kindle Paperwhite, but we’ll appreciate the extra crispness alongside a tweaked interface and a new PDF reflow option. Readers who balk at going with the dominant device makers can pick up the Cybook HD FrontLight in November, when we’ll also learn whether or not Bookeen can offer a challenge on price.

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