Different Good Book Readers
Beneath, you will discover just a few 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 Evaluation) is a superb possibility in order for you an e-reader that doubles as a digital pocket book, but in addition 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 too can 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 too can join wi-fi earbuds by way of Bluetooth). But it surely was usually slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. Whereas the massive library has low-cost and even free ebooks, it isn’t nearly as good a variety as Kindle Limitless. The method of getting a e-book from the library on a Nook can also be past irritating. You may must obtain both Adobe Digital Editions or Android File Switch earlier than connecting the machine to your laptop bodily after which transferring the recordsdata.
Kindle Colorsoft for $280: The Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Evaluation) is Amazon’s first Kindle with a shade 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 shade accuracy. However the display is capped at 150 ppi for shade photos, versus 300 ppi for black and white, and the expertise of studying remains to be just a little fuzzier when in comparison with the newest Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to course of shade photos, too. It is lacking options which are by now commonplace on different shade e-readers, like web page flip buttons and stylus help. It isn’t a unhealthy Kindle, and shade 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 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 inexpensive, however you continue to get to see e-book covers or graphic novels in full shade, and you’ll spotlight in shade too. In testing, I discovered that some books weren’t as straightforward on the eyes, just like the blue-and-yellow shade 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 snug for one-handed use. It has 16 gigabytes of storage quite than 32, however that is nonetheless about 12,000 books. There’s Overdrive integration and Bluetooth help. It is also waterproof, comprised of recycled supplies, and is repairable.
Nook 9-inch Lenovo Pill for $130: Should you primarily learn cookbooks or different color-intensive supplies, and also you need a devoted reader, you may wish to think about this inexpensive pill from Nook and Lenovo, which has the Nook app in-built (6/10, WIRED Evaluation). As with the tablets talked about above, you lose the E Ink display and the distraction-free nature of an e-reader. You’ll be able to not less than flip off notifications whereas in sure apps, which I like to recommend doing for the Nook app. It ships with an previous model of Android, and it isn’t constructed for heavy work like video or photograph modifying.
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