The Greatest E-Readers

Different Good E-book Readers

Beneath, you may discover a number of extra e-readers we like however do not essentially love as a lot as our prime picks.

Kindle Scribe 2024 for $400: The Scribe (8/10, WIRED Overview) is a superb choice if you’d like an e-reader that doubles as a digital pocket book, but additionally wish to stay inside the Kindle ecosystem. It has a ten.2-inch (300 ppi) paperlike show with options like adjustable heat gentle and an auto-adjusting entrance gentle. The included Premium Pen additionally has a soft-tipped eraser (mimicking that of a No.2 pencil). With Lively Canvas and expandable margins, you can even mark up ebooks and write notes within the facet panel.

Nook GlowLight 4 Plus for $180: The 4 Plus is the one waterproof Nook within the lineup, and it has the largest display screen at 7.8 inches, together with 32 GB of storage. It additionally has bodily page-turn buttons and a headphone jack for listening to audiobooks (however you can even join wi-fi earbuds through Bluetooth). Nevertheless it was usually slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. Whereas the big library has low cost and even free ebooks, it isn’t nearly as good a range as Kindle Limitless. The method of getting a e book from the library on a Nook can also be past irritating. You will have to obtain both Adobe Digital Editions or Android File Switch earlier than connecting the gadget to your pc bodily after which transferring the recordsdata.

Kindle Colorsoft for $280: The Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Overview) is Amazon’s first Kindle with a colour display screen. It has a display screen with an oxide backplane, which Amazon says delivers higher distinction and picture high quality together with custom-formulated coatings and nitride LEDs for brightness and colour accuracy. However the display screen is capped at 150 ppi for colour photos, versus 300 ppi for black and white, and the expertise of studying continues to be somewhat fuzzier when in comparison with the most recent Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to course of colour photos, too. It is lacking options which are by now customary on different colour e-readers, like web page flip buttons and stylus help. It isn’t a unhealthy Kindle, and colour does enrich the entire e-reading expertise, however we recommend ready for a reduction throughout an Amazon sale occasion.

Kobo Clara Color for $160: Kobo’s Clara Color appears to be disappearing from retail retailer, so it is seemingly that there is a successor on the best way (or Kobo is simply nixing it). It is a disgrace as a result of I actually prefer it, particularly in comparison with the Kindle Colorsoft. It is extra reasonably priced, however you continue to get to see e book covers or graphic novels in full colour, and you’ll spotlight in colour too. In testing, I discovered that some books weren’t as simple on the eyes, just like the blue-and-yellow colour scheme of Curious George, however that was one small gripe in an in any other case seamless studying expertise. The Clara lacks page-turn buttons, however the 6-inch display screen measurement is snug for one-handed use. It has 16 gigabytes of storage reasonably than 32, however that is nonetheless about 12,000 books. There’s Overdrive integration and Bluetooth help. It is also waterproof, made out of recycled supplies, and is repairable.

Nook 9-inch Lenovo Pill for $130: When you primarily learn cookbooks or different color-intensive supplies, and also you need a devoted reader, you would possibly wish to think about this reasonably priced pill from Nook and Lenovo, which has the Nook app in-built (6/10, WIRED Overview). As with the tablets talked about above, you lose the E Ink display screen and the distraction-free nature of an e-reader. You may no less than flip off notifications whereas in sure apps, which I like to recommend doing for the Nook app. It ships with an outdated model of Android, and it isn’t constructed for heavy work like video or photograph enhancing.

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