{{Infobox Information appliance , name = Cybook (Cytale) / Cybook Gen1 (Bookeen) , image = , caption = Cybook Gen1 as sold by Bookeen , manufacturer = Cytale at first, then

Bookeen Bookeen is a French company dealing with e-books and consumer electronics. History In 2003 after the failure of Cytale (the first European company to make an ebook reader) two former engineers of Cytale, Laurent Picard and Michaël Dahan, bou ...

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e-Reader An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-read ...

, releasedate = 1998 (Cytale) / 2003 (Bookeen) , connectivity =

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Mobipocket Mobipocket SA was a French company incorporated in March 2000 that created the .mobi e-book file format and produced the Mobipocket Reader software for mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA) and desktop operating systems. The Mobipoc ...

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, TXT, RTF,

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Cybook Gen3 Cybook Gen3 is a 6-inch (15.2 cm) e-reader for reading e-books and periodicals, and it can be used to listen to MP3 and audiobook files. It was produced by the French company Bookeen. Description The Cybook Gen3 is a reading device based on ...

, related = The Cybook Gen1 (formally Cybook) was an

e-reader An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals. Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-read ...

originally made by the French company Cytale, which filed for bankruptcy in 2003. Two engineers of Cytale founded

and bought the rights to the Cybook. They completely remade the integrated OS and application, and then sold it as the Cybook Gen1. This product is now discontinued. It was replaced by the

, a smaller, lighter device.

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