Product Review
The Franklin EB-500 Rocket eBook is a compact, hand-held electronic book that lets you purchase books online, download them in minutes and enjoy hours of uninterrupted reading absolutely anywhere. About the size of an average paperback, it stores up to 10 books or 4,000 pages of text and graphics in your own personal digital library.
The Rocket eBook comes with its owner's manual, the Random House Webster's Concise Dictionary, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland built-in. To purchase more books, you must install the included RocketLibrarian software and register the Rocket eBook online. The dictionary is handy, since you can set it up to touch one button, then touch a word to get the definition.
The Franklin EB-500 Rocket eBook presents a worthy and fun alternative to the printed medium, if not a replacement. You control the unit with three buttons and four icons on its touch-sensitive screen, which let you select a stored title, navigate the title's chapters and pages, and decide how you want to display them (horizontally or vertically or for left or right-handed holding). The Rocket eBook fits in the palm of your hand and stores the equivalent of 10 novels.
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