TrekStor eBook Reader Pyrus review

If you can’t find what yoou need on the Eason shop, there’s nothing to stop you using other non-Amazon bookshops; the Pyrus is compatible with a fairly wide range of eBook formats, including the ubiquitous EPUB format sold by online retailers from Foyles to WHSmith. You can also buy EPUB books directly from many publishers’ websites. We tested the Pyrus with a variety of other file formats, including HTML, MOBI, TXT and PDF, all of which worked.

We were pleased with the reader’s ability to reflow and resize the text from even a heavily illustrated PDF while still leaving the illustrations in a sensible position relative to the text. It’s not perfect and some images weren’t correctly picked up, but it’s good enough for reading product manuals, for example. With other formats, we had occasional problems with the default size and margins of the text not being to our satisfaction – our test EPUBs were initially rendered with inordinately large lettering. We were able to change the font size from large to the more readable medium size using the settings menu, but changing the settings of one book doesn’t introduce persistent changes for all – there’s also no option in the main settings menu to change the default font size for all documents.

The Pyrus has 4GB of internal storage and has a microSDHC card slot which allows you to add up to 32GB of extra space, so you won’t ever run out of room for books. At the low price of £66, we can forgive the reader’s lack of features, but its awkward size and mediocre screen meant we didn’t find it very comfortable to use. Both the Kobo eReader Touch and Amazon Kindle Touch are worth the extra cost.