Different Good E-book Readers
Under, you may discover a couple of extra e-readers we like however do not essentially love as a lot as our high picks.
Kindle Scribe 2024 for $400: The Scribe (8/10, WIRED Review) is a good possibility if you would like an e-reader that doubles as a digital pocket book, but additionally need 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 too 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 most important display 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 too join wi-fi earbuds through Bluetooth). However it was usually slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. Whereas the massive library has cheap 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 Transfer earlier than connecting the gadget to your laptop bodily after which transferring the information.
Kindle Colorsoft for $280: The Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Review) is Amazon’s first Kindle with a colour display. It has a display 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 is capped at 150 ppi for colour pictures, versus 300 ppi for black and white, and the expertise of studying continues to be just a little fuzzier when in comparison with the newest Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to course of colour pictures, too. It is lacking options which can be by now normal on different colour e-readers, like web page flip buttons and stylus assist. It isn’t a dangerous Kindle, and colour does enrich the entire e-reading expertise, however we recommend ready for a reduction throughout an Amazon sale occasion.
Kobo Clara Colour for $160: Kobo’s Clara Color appears to be disappearing from retail retailer, so it is seemingly that there is a successor on the way in which (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 may spotlight in colour too. In testing, I discovered that some books weren’t as straightforward 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 measurement is comfy 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 assist. It is also waterproof, produced from recycled supplies, and is repairable.
Nook 9-inch Lenovo Tablet for $130: In case you primarily learn cookbooks or different color-intensive supplies, and also you desire a devoted reader, you may need to think about this reasonably priced pill from Nook and Lenovo, which has the Nook app inbuilt (6/10, WIRED Review). As with the tablets talked about above, you lose the E Ink display and the distraction-free nature of an e-reader. You may a minimum of 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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