Different Good E-book Readers
Beneath, you will discover a couple of extra e-readers we like however do not essentially love as a lot as our prime picks.
Kindle Scribe
Photograp: Brenda Storyar
Kindle Scribe 2024 for $400: The Scribe (8/10, WIRED Evaluate) is a good possibility if you’d like an e-reader that doubles as a digital pocket book, but in addition 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 may also 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 may also join wi-fi earbuds by way of Bluetooth). However it was typically slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. Whereas the massive library has low-cost and even free ebooks, it isn’t pretty much as good a variety as Kindle Limitless. The method of getting a guide from the library on a Nook can be past irritating. You will must 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
Photograp: Brenda Storyar
Kindle Colorsoft for $280: The Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Evaluate) is Amazon’s first Kindle with a coloration 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 coloration accuracy. However the display screen is capped at 150 ppi for coloration photos, versus 300 ppi for black and white, and the expertise of studying continues to be just a little fuzzier when in comparison with the most recent Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to course of coloration photos, too. It is lacking options which can be by now customary on different coloration e-readers, like web page flip buttons and stylus assist. It isn’t a foul Kindle, and coloration does enrich the entire e-reading expertise, however we propose 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 possible 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 inexpensive, however you continue to get to see guide covers or graphic novels in full coloration, and you may spotlight in coloration too. In testing, I discovered that some books weren’t as straightforward on the eyes, just like the blue-and-yellow coloration 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 comfy for one-handed use. It has 16 gigabytes of storage slightly than 32, however that is nonetheless about 12,000 books. There’s Overdrive integration and Bluetooth assist. It is also waterproof, made out of recycled supplies, and is repairable.
Nook 9-inch Lenovo Pill for $130: In the event you primarily learn cookbooks or different color-intensive supplies, and also you need a devoted reader, you may need to contemplate this inexpensive pill from Nook and Lenovo, which has the Nook app inbuilt (6/10, WIRED Evaluate). 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 at the very least 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 picture modifying.
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