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) reading device. The Hanlin v3 features a 6" (15 cm), 4-level

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electrophoretic display (

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material) with a resolution of 600×800

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s (167 ppi), while the v3+ features a 16-level grayscale display.Hanlin V3 + E-book reader
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electrophoretic display (

material) with a resolution of 600×800

s (200 ppi). The device runs a

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-based OS. The device is produced by the JinKe Electronic Company in China and is rebranded by various OEMs. It is marketed under different names including Bebook, Walkbook, lBook, Iscriptum, Papyre, EZ Reader, Koobe, and ECO Reader. It can also be used with JinKe's proprietary WOLF format (

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.wol).

Specifications of Hanlin Models

Hardware

*Size: 184 mm × 120.5 mm × 9.9 mm *Weight: 210 g, battery included (160-gram for BeBook mini) *Screen: 90 mm × 120 mm (3.54 in × 4.72 in) *600×800 pixels / black and white, 4/16 gray-scale 166 dpi for Hanlin v3/v3+ and 8 gray-scale 200 dpi for Hanlin v5 *Daylight readable / No

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/ Portrait and landscape mode *SDRAM memory: 32 MB for the v3, 64 MB for the v3+/v6 *

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(supports SDIO) (v3 supports up to 4 GB, v5 supports SDHC up to 16 GB (supports 32 GB unofficially) *Connectivity:

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1.1 (client only) for Hanlin v3 and

2.0 for Hanlin v3+/v5

Software

*Operating system:

*Document formats:

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, TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML Help, FB2,

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, WOL, DJVU, LIT,

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, PPT, Mobipocket. *Archives support: ZIP, RAR. *Supported image format:

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, BMP, PNG. *Supported sound format:

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Product Version

*V Series: V2, V3, V3+, V5, V60, V90 *A Series: A6, A9, A90

External links

* http://www.bebook.net.au - Australian reseller. BeBook version includes both Bebook1 and Mini models

References