I was quite excited to try out the Cybook Orizon eReader as I have an original Kindle and I wanted to see the differences between the two devices.

The first thing that captured me was the touch screen on the Cybook Orizon. The interface is quite sensitive and it did take a while to adjust to but once I got used to it this made using the Cybook Orizon a pleasure.

I did find that navigating around the device was a bit complicated and for once I found myself reading the manual on the device to make sure I got the most out of my reading experience. The Cybook Orizon was designed in France and reading the manual made that quite clear as the grammar and spelling wasn't that great, so it did take a while to decipher some of the content.

The Cybook Orizon comes preloaded with 150 ebooks but only about a third of those are in English and most of them are your Moby Dick and Jane Austen public domain type books with a few Mills & Boons thrown in for good measure.

I have yet to download a book of the Internet but I'm very excited to try as the Cybook Orizon has full browsing capability which means I can go to any of my favourite ebook publishers instead of being limited to one provider. The Cybook Orizon also supports a variety of formats including Adobe ePUB/PDF, txt and html files as well as many image formats including JPG, GIF and PNG files.

I did connect the device to my laptop in the hopes of moving books I already have onto the device but it failed to read the device as a drive on my machine. Im hoping this is because I connected the device before turning my machine on and not because it doesn't show up as a drive at all.

The Cybook Orizon is a very slim and light device and it took a while to get used to holding it as my Kindle is a bit bulkier and more book-like in its design.

Im really looking forward to exploring the Bookeen Cybook Orizon further.