To provide an electronic book device which can output book contents taken-in or saved in the form of electronic data through easy operation with the voice of a mode suitable for user or book category.

The electronic book device 1 is constituted by connecting a voice processing part 20 to a data processing part 10 and connecting a voice mode setting part 30 to the voice processing part 20. The voice mode setting part 30 is a part for setting voice modes such as the intonation, tone, voice quality, etc., of an output voice and equipped with a voice mode data storage part 302. The voice mode data storage part 302 stores user recognition data, book category data and voice modes so that they correspond to one another. This electronic book device 1 can output the voice of a mode suitable for user or book category through easy operation.