Franklin EB-500 Rocket eBook

usability, performance, screen

portability, value for money

81% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

I love my eBook! When I travel, I sometimes have 40 titles in it, and never run out of things to read. I especially love the way I can download free books from the Gutenberg Project and other public domain sites and load them into the reader. I can...

My Rocket eBook is most enjoyable in the dark hours of night if you have problems sleeping as I do. No more flashlights and no lamps on to disturb your partner. It travels just great.. the battery seems to last forever, you don't even need to pack...

I have had one of these for about two months, and am totally hooked on it. It has some readily apparent advantages (portability, ease of use, etc.), but some advantages that are not so apparent--it has focused my reading on some classics that I...

This is a very useful product, particularly for downloading lengthy texts from the web. I have found it very useful for studying annual reports, speeches from CEOs, etc. The software allows simple downloading and then one can carry these useful texts...

I really love my reader. The BEST part is I can actually read in bed, which was something that really turned my opinion on e-books around. The books are a lot cheaper than regular books, I stumbled on Crossroadspub.com and am amazed at that and other...

This is great. Purchasing this product gives you access to over 2000 titles at the Novumedia web site (you may not need all of them, but there are a lot of gems in their library of public domain books and "little publishers"). It also let's you down...

This thing is awsome! I have read about 7 titles so far and I just like it more and more. I first thought that titles would be hard to get or download but it is so easy. Being that it is a new item, not every new book is available in electronic...

THE BAD STUFF: It's heavy. I sometimes flip pages when I don't mean to (although that it just because I always keep my thumb on the button). The screen shows fingerprints and it's really difficult to wipe off, about as hard as getting PAM off a pan. ...

My wife purchased a Rocket ebook for me for Christmas. She started here at Amazon. She carefully checked the Rocket web site as well, and spoke to the folks that make the Rocket. She was assured that everything required to use the Rocket with a Mac...