I've had the Bambook for a while now, and I just finished reading an entire book on it. I've basically been running all over Shanghai with this thing, and I feel pretty good about it.

The Bambook is lighter than I imagined, at 282 grams. It's not much heavier than my iPhone 3GS with its case and screen protector. It feels great in the hand. The metal back panel and the plastic front both feel high quality, better than the Hanvon e-readers I've used before.

The greatest use of an e-reader is the ability to read for long periods of time in various situations. Although you can read books on your phone, the number of words displayed per page is small, and the number of page turns is devastating. Also, reading on your phone consumes too much power. The Bambook has a long standby time. Because it uses e-ink technology, you don't have to turn it on and off. When you're not using it, you can just close it with the lock key and throw it aside. The page turning speed of e-ink technology isn't very fast, but it doesn't affect the continuity of reading too much. The speed is acceptable. After continuous page turning, you can indeed find some residual traces. However, some online comments say that you can read the content of the previous page directly by relying on the residue, which is really nonsense. The residue basically doesn't affect reading. The e-reader is set to automatically refresh the entire screen after a period of time, and the problem of residue is solved well. The biggest benefit of the Bambook for me is that I can read in bright environments, even in the sun. Phones are a tragedy in this situation. No matter how strong the phone is, it won't work. But the Bambook feels great in the sun. The reflection is very soft and not dazzling at all. Purely from the perspective of reading in direct sunlight, the Bambook is better than the book itself. After all, there are fewer books printed on beige-based printing paper with higher costs. Most of them are still bleached paper, and the reflection under the sun is really dazzling.

After binding with my Qidian account, 199 books and nearly 40,000 chapters were synchronized in an hour. Reading Qidian books on the Bambook is more comfortable than reading them on the web page. Especially for VIP chapters, the web version is all pictures due to anti-piracy technology. This has been criticized for a long time, but there is no solution. Now I complete my subscriptions on Qidian and then synchronize them to the e-reader. The font and the number of words displayed per page are much more comfortable than on the web page. As for the Bambook's comment function, I haven't tried it too much. I'm not too interested in the T9 input method.

The Bambook is said to be able to stand by for two weeks continuously, which is definitely an ideal state. Now I spend 3 to 5 hours reading books with the Bambook every day, basically all the transportation time for activities in the city, as well as part of the time in cafes, waiting time in public places, and pillow and toilet time at home. I've had it for ten days, and I've only charged it once. Basically, under normal daily use, it's no problem to use it for a week on a full charge. During this period, I used wifi at home to synchronize Qidian works, and there was no deliberate power saving.

I'm used to holding the Bambook in my left hand to read. I feel that the asymmetrical design of the Bambook makes me a little painful. After holding it for a long time, the lower left corner of the e-reader's shell presses against my palm, which is not very comfortable. It would be better if this corner was more rounded. When holding it with my right hand, the five-way navigation button for turning pages is too low, and it is not very convenient to turn pages. In addition, whether holding it with the left or right hand, the lower number input keys and navigation key area are quite easy to touch accidentally. Anyway, the number input key area doesn't have any function, so it doesn't matter if you touch it. It's more troublesome to accidentally touch the navigation key area, and you always have to press it two or three times to return to the original reading page. From a practical point of view, the application frequency of these keys is not high. If they could be placed on the frame of the Bambook, at the top or bottom where they are not easily touched on the front, it might be better.

The built-in system is a bit unaccustomed to use, mainly because the menus cannot be grouped. If there are many books, it is quite troublesome to find them, and you have to turn the pages continuously. It's also not easy to manage after importing your own reference books. The support for pictures and PDFs is relatively poor. The e-book production tool cannot import PDFs with mixed pictures and text or scanned versions of e-books, let alone use them to read comics. The openness of e-books is relatively poor.