With an ebook reader, you can carry thousands of books at a time and access a library of millions more on a device that is smaller than a paperback and lasts for weeks on a single charge. After testing every competitive ebook reader available in the US, we can say that the is the right choice for almost everyone. Last updated: December 13, 2017 We’ve tested every major available ebook reader—slim pickings these days—and the is still the best pick for most people.

It has a great screen for reading, it’s easy to hold and read for long periods of time, it gives you all the features you need at a reasonable price, and it has Amazon’s huge ebook library behind it. The Kindle Voyage is still our upgrade pick for heavy readers willing to pay for a slightly better reading experience, and the is an option if you insist on avoiding Amazon. If you’re willing to pay more, Amazon’s is an empirically better ebook reader, but we don’t think its improvements justify its higher price for most people. Though it has the same display size and resolution as the Paperwhite, the Voyage is a bit lighter and thinner, its display automatically adjusts brightness based on ambient light, and it has convenient page-turn buttons along the left and right edges of the device. (The Paperwhite requires you to swipe or tap the screen to turn pages.) If you read a lot and you’ll appreciate these niceties, you might want to pay more for those features, but we think most people will be happy with the Kindle Paperwhite—the Kindle Voyage’s extra features are luxuries.

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An ebook reader is a dedicated device that lets you read electronic books—usually those that you buy from the reader’s own ebook store, but also some that you can download elsewhere. Over the past few years, the prices of ebook readers have fallen dramatically while the hardware has improved significantly and premium features have become standard. If you don’t have an ebook reader, there’s never been a better time to get one. For current e-reader owners, an upgrade isn’t necessary but can make a world of difference. If you struggle with finding light to read, get frustrated with slow page turns or low resolutions, or merely hate how big your current ebook reader is, upgrading might be worthwhile. You can get a great reader that addresses all of those concerns for a fair price. Why you shouldn’t just read ebooks on a tablet.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo all offer apps that allow you to access each ebook reader’s library on an iOS or Android tablet or phone; you can also use a tablet or smartphone to read ebooks from Apple’s iBooks Store (on iOS) and the Google Play Store (on iOS and Android). This flexible arrangement can be great for times when you may not have your reader handy: You can read a few pages, and your progress syncs to the cloud so that you can pick right back up where you left off on whichever device you prefer. For regular reading, however, we think dedicated ebook readers are a better option for a number of reasons, namely nonreflective electronic-ink displays that give you a more paperlike visual experience (including easy reading outdoors and less eyestrain than with an LCD screen), a lighter weight, and a significantly longer battery life. Just as important for serious reading is the fact that a dedicated ebook reader offers fewer distractions—you won’t be tempted to switch apps to check Twitter or your email. Ebooks and DRM.

When you purchase an ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, or Google, that book is usually protected with a digital rights management scheme, which means that the book is available for reading only on devices that support each store’s DRM system. For example, you can read Amazon-purchased ebooks only on Kindle devices or in Amazon’s Kindle apps for other platforms—you can’t view them on a Barnes & Noble or Kobo reader. In addition, DRM raises questions of ownership. This issue first came to light in 2009 when Amazon from some Kindles. A recent example (in early 2016) was Barnes & Noble’s announcement that the company would stop selling Nook content in the UK, leaving customers wondering whether they would lose access to previously purchased content. ( to offer “continued access to the vast majority” of titles, but it has provided no information yet about what “majority” means or which titles customers may lose.) This isn’t an issue specific to any one seller, and it isn’t a problem with the DRM-free ebooks you can purchase from some independent sellers or download from sources such as. But DRM is worth keeping in mind, because it means, among other things, that once you commit to an ebook reader, you’ll likely end up sticking with it because you won’t be able to transfer your DRM-protected ebooks to another e-reader platform.

How we picked and tested. Few companies ever made ebook readers, but these days the number has dwindled to just three serious competitors. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo are the only major hardware makers with digital bookstores to back up their respective devices.

Among them, they offer only nine distinct readers, not counting the Nook-branded Samsung tablets that Barnes & Noble sells or Amazon’s Fire tablets, which have a Kindle app. You can find a few niche devices, such as the, but nothing else comes in at a reasonable price with a library to back up the hardware. Of these readers, we gave preference to devices with pixel density of 300 dots per inch, the highest available in any ebook reader and what most models offer.

We also focused on models that have built-in lighting for reading in dark environments. (Unlike tablets such as the iPad, ebook readers use a side-lighting system that provides a glow across the screen, rather than from behind it.) The ebook readers we tested in 2016 (left to right): Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Aura H2O, Nook GlowLight Plus, Kindle Voyage, Kindle Paperwhite. Photo: Nick Guy Once we had the readers in hand, we compared the physical feel of the hardware and the reading experience. Almost all the readers we’ve tested have 6-inch screens, and we’ve found that larger devices are often more cumbersome to carry around.

Most of the readers promise battery life somewhere between six and eight weeks (depending on usage) and offer 4 or 8 GB of storage. In other words, most specs are less important than how good the ebook reader feels in the hand and how evenly it distributes light across the screen. We compared formatting by downloading to each device and seeing how well each device handled images, charts, headers, and, of course, text. On the Kindle Paperwhite, ebooks look great regardless of the text size. That said, ebook readers can’t stand on the strength of their hardware alone. While all readers allow you to side-load unprotected content, it’s important that they easily provide access to a large library of commercial books. We looked up 65 ebook titles from the, noting availability and price; our book selection represented a number of categories, including fiction, nonfiction, advice/how-to, and graphic novels.

In addition to the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo stores, we checked for the same tiles in Apple’s iBooks Store and in Google Play for comparison’s sake. For this update, we looked only at English-language books and Roman character sets, but we may test with other languages and characters for a future update. Our pick: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. The 2015 Wi-Fi edition of the is the best e-reader for most people thanks to stellar hardware, a massive library that frequently offers better prices than others, and a slew of services unavailable on other readers. You can easily navigate your library, find and purchase new titles (and download them over Wi-Fi), and, most important, read your books. If you go with the base model, it’s the most affordable option when compared with similarly equipped devices from other companies; alternatively, you can pay extra for a model with always-connected 3G wireless, a feature that none of the other e-reader makers offer.

The ideal ebook reader provides a window for reading without allowing too many hardware distractions to get in the way, and that’s just what the Kindle Paperwhite does. It’s a thin rectangle of soft-touch plastic measuring 6.7 inches tall, 4.6 inches wide, and 0.36 inch deep, with a 6-inch-diagonal, 300 ppi touchscreen. It weighs 7.2 ounces, which is right around the average of the models we tested and just a bit more than the weight of an iPhone 6s Plus; the Paperwhite is comfortable to hold for extended periods. Unlike some previous Kindles, it has no headphone port, speakers, or navigation buttons; apart from a bezel around the edges, it’s all reading screen. It also has no physical inputs or controls other than the Micro-USB charging port and power button along the bottom edge. The Kindle Paperwhite’s relatively thin edge.

Photo: Nick Guy Amazon’s e-reader software has never been difficult to navigate, but a 2016 update made it even easier to use. The homepage presents books you’re currently reading, reading lists based off of Amazon and Goodreads, plus recommendations from Amazon. Controls for features such as screen brightness and airplane mode are now more easily accessible.

When you’re reading, you can easily turn a page with a tap or a swipe. The screen is evenly lit across its entire surface, and the text is incredibly crisp. Amazon also got the small details right: Tapping to call up a footnote, for example, opens the footnote on the current page instead of taking you to a separate page, and you can dismiss the footnote with a simple tap.

And actually hitting the footnote is easier than on other readers thanks to a much larger touch target. Amazon’s Kindle home screen. Photo: Nick Guy The huge collection of services that Amazon and its partners offer is a major reason why we love the Kindle Paperwhite. Just a few examples include the capability to share purchased books with people on your Amazon Prime account; X-Ray, which helps identify notable people and terms in your books; and the optional service, which gives you on-demand access to a huge catalog of books for a flat rate every month. All of the ebook readers we tested allow you to use to borrow free ebooks from your local library, but most of them require a to transfer the files over. With the Kindle Paperwhite (and all other Kindles), OverDrive uses Amazon’s storefront, as well as the same wireless delivery you’d expect from a purchase.

When we searched for the NYT best sellers, Amazon’s library came out as the winner. It wasn’t lacking anything that any other store had except for one graphic novel that’s available as an interactive title only in iBooks. The only other missing titles, absent from all of the e-reader platforms, were two graphic novels, which isn’t unexpected: Digital comics and graphic novels are kind of a different beast, with stand-alone tablet apps optimized for them.

Amazon’s Kindle store was also the least expensive for more books than any other store, as 10 of its NYT best-seller titles were either the cheapest or tied for the cheapest. Amazon’s Kindles are also the only ebook readers available in a version with an always-on 3G connection that allows you to download books anywhere in the world without needing Wi-Fi. The feature is a $70 premium that we don’t think most people will need, but it’s nice to have the option to purchase such a thing, especially if you’re a frequent traveler and heavy reader. We aren’t the only ones who love the Kindle Paperwhite.,, and all offer some variation on the same opinion: This is the ebook reader to get. Flaws but not dealbreakers.

Kindles don’t natively support EPUB, an open-standard format for unprotected ebooks that’s common for public-domain and other freely available books, but this is a pretty easy limitation to get around. Is free software for Windows, macOS, and Linux that allows you to reformat EPUB files into the proprietary format that Kindles can read. PCMag has a great article that. Unlike the Kindle Oasis and Kobo Aura H2O, the Kindle Paperwhite is not waterproof or dustproof. And unless you pay a $20 premium, the Kindle Paperwhite comes with “special offers” (read: ads). They appear only on the lock screen when the Kindle is turned off, or as a small banner on the home screen when it’s on, so they’re unobtrusive enough that we don’t think most people will have a problem with them. Rather than paying that premium up front, we recommend buying the standard version—you can always down the line to remove the ads if you don’t like them.

Amazon has finally decided to allow some of its lower-end and higher-end e-readers to play audiobooks from Audible, the audiobook company it owns. For some reason, however, this functionality will skip the and our upgrade pick, the.

If you need your Kindle to play Audible audiobooks, you’ll have to buy either the or the new. You’ll also have to use or, since neither Kindle has a headphone jack. Upgrade pick: Amazon Kindle Voyage. The Paperwhite is a great ebook reader, but if you’re a frequent reader, the adds a number of features that, taken together, make reading a book more enjoyable. The Voyage’s screen adjusts brightness automatically based on ambient light levels, and the screen’s micro-etched-glass front reduces reflections compared to the plastic-screened Paperwhite. The Voyage also has physical buttons along the left and right edges that you can squeeze to turn pages (instead of having to swipe or tap the screen), and the Voyage has a smaller, slimmer body than the Paperwhite. The result is that the Voyage is the best e-reader out there if cost is no object.

(Amazon’s top-of-the-line Kindle Oasis has a larger screen, but we think the Oasis’s size makes it less practical.) The Voyage is the thinnest of all the e-readers we tried, and if money is no object, it’s the best ebook reader available. Photo: Nick Guy That said, at nearly twice the price of the Paperwhite, the Voyage doesn’t offer enough over the Kindle Paperwhite for most people to justify the additional cost. The pixel density of the Voyage’s screen is the same as that of the Paperwhite’s screen. The Voyage’s auto-adaptive backlight is nice, but the standard backlight on the Paperwhite is fine and easy enough to adjust manually. And while some people may prefer the Voyage’s physical page-turn buttons to the Paperwhite’s touchscreen taps and swipes, we think most will be fine with the onscreen controls on the Paperwhite.

A non-Amazon option: Barnes & Noble Nook GlowLight 3. If you insist on something other than a Kindle for whatever reason, the is the option we recommend. (But we really think you should stick with a Kindle.) The GlowLight 3’s specs are comparable to those of the Kindle Paperwhite, but it’s a larger and less-polished device, and it feels like a step back from the previous (and sadly no longer available) GlowLight Plus. The GlowLight 3 is the best of what’s left in the non-Kindle field, rather than a reader we can really get excited about.

Like most e-readers, the Nook GlowLight 3 has a plastic body, but it’s wider and taller than any six-inch-screen competitor—and even than its immediate predecessor, the GlowLight Plus—and it feels hollow. The 300 dpi screen is set back quite a bit from the surrounding bezel, something you’ll notice while typing on the on-screen keyboard. And while the previous GlowLight was waterproof (with an IP67 rating), this version is not. We like the GlowLight 3’s physical home button, located in the center of the bottom bezel, much as on a smartphone or tablet. Pressing it takes you back to the main screen, and holding it toggles the device’s screen light.

(The actual power button sits along the top edge.) We wish the Kindle Paperwhite had a similar hardware control. The GlowLight 3 also has two new features that deserve some credit. Night Mode automatically changes the screen’s lighting from cool to warm based on the time of day, a feature no other reader offers; you can also manually toggle screen temperature. And the GlowLight 3 is the least-expensive ebook reader with physical page-turn buttons, although they click very loudly—so much so that the noise may be a dealbreaker, especially if you do a lot of reading next to a light sleeper or in quiet environments. The Nook GlowLight 3’s Night Mode allows you to change the warmth of the screen’s lighting. Video: Nick Guy In our NYT best-seller library search, Barnes & Noble was missing two of the fiction titles, two of the nonfiction items, and the same graphic novels as Amazon. It didn’t win on price for any title.

We also have some concern about the Nook platform’s long-term viability. Barnes & Noble on the heels of the company’s in 2015. This leaves the US as the only market for the company’s ebooks. In June 2017, to the back of its stores.

Based on all these factors plus the half-hearted hardware, our gut tells us that the Nook brand isn’t long for this world. The competition. Amazon’s was the most advanced, and the most expensive, e-reader available during our latest round of testing. Its design is unique compared with that of other Kindles, as it features an asymmetrical body (0.13 inches on the thinner edge, 0.33 inches on the thicker edge) with physical page-turn buttons along one edge. The Oasis is an inch wider than the Paperwhite (though half an inch shorter), allowing it to feature a larger screen (7 inches) than the Paperwhite. Yet at just 194 grams, the Oasis is 11 grams lighter. The results is that the Oasis still feels light in the hand, and it’s comfortable for extended reading sessions.

But we think that, overall, the Oasis’s larger size makes it less practical to carry and hold than the Paperwhite and Voyage. (The design is the same as that of the now-discontinued 2016 version of the Oasis, except that the 2017 model has a bigger screen.) Unlike other Kindles, the Oasis doesn’t have a designated top or bottom: It uses an accelerometer to adjust the screen’s orientation automatically, based on how you’re holding the device (with the page-turn buttons on the left or right). The Oasis is also Amazon’s first waterproof Kindle, rated to survive an hour in two meters of fresh water. It adopts the Kindle Voyage’s auto-brightness feature (which automatically adjusts the screen’s brightness level based on ambient light). We cited that missing feature as a fault in the original Oasis, so we welcome that improvement. We’ve noticed that in comparison with other Kindles, the Oasis can take a moment or two longer to wake up after being asleep for a few hours. And while it gets “weeks” (Amazon’s claim) of battery life, the current Oasis no longer includes the original model’s battery case (which wouldn’t fit or have any way to connect, anyway), which extended use time to “months.” Still, there’s a lot to like about the Kindle Oasis, and the current starting price (around $250) is more reasonable than the $290 Amazon charged for the first-generation Oasis, especially with the current version’s adaptive light sensor and waterproofing.

Still, it’s significantly more expensive than even our upgrade pick, the Voyage, without being clearly better for even frequent readers. The lacks illumination, which is a dealbreaker, and as with previous basic Kindles, the 167 ppi screen resolution is about half as sharp as that of the 300 ppi Kindle Paperwhite, Voyage, and Oasis. The basic Kindle was the first non-Fire Kindle to support Bluetooth audio, specifically for accessibility via a screen reader feature called VoiceView, as well as Audible audiobook streaming. (The Paperwhite has VoiceView but requires for using wired headphones, while the 2017 Oasis mirrors the standard Kindle’s support for both VoiceView and Audible.) Compared to the previous entry-level Kindle, the current version is 9 mm shorter, 4 mm narrower, about 1 mm thinner, and 30 grams lighter than the previous version. But if you’re thinking of upgrading from an older Kindle, we think it’s worth spending a bit more to get the much better Paperwhite. When it first launched, the was the largest of all the major ebook readers available: It was the tallest, widest, and heaviest of any reader from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Kobo, and the thickest compared with the other edge-lit models we considered.

(Some older nonlit models are thicker, but none by more than a millimeter.) The 6.8-inch screen was larger than the 6-inch display on every competing reader, but it had a lower resolution at 265 ppi. Expandable storage (up to 32 GB) by way of a microSD card was novel, but since you could fit thousands of books on the 4 GB every other reader had, it was ultimately unnecessary. We appreciate that the Kobo Aura H2O is IP67 waterproof and dustproof, though. Kobo announced the in May 2017.

The Edition 2 is smaller and lighter than the previous version, with the same 6.8-inch screen size and 265 ppi display. Battery life has decreased from two months to “weeks,” while storage is now fixed at 8 GB, rather than the expandable 4 GB the original model shipped with. The Edition 2 is rated IPX8, versus IP67 on the previous version. This means it’s more waterproof—able to survive submersion under more than a meter of water—but the company no longer claims that it’s dustproof. Although we have not spent any hands-on time with the second edition, we don’t think these upgrades are substantial enough for us to reconsider our current picks. Announced in August 2016, the competes more directly with the Kindle Paperwhite, at the same price.

It has a more standard 6-inch screen and single-color front light. Surprisingly, its screen is only 212 ppi, a lower resolution than what you get from any comparable model. Such a low resolution at this price without any special features disqualifies this reader from our consideration. Kobo also shipped its new high-end reader, the, in August.

Selling for about twice the price of Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite, the Aura One offers a number of premium features, but it has some drawbacks. The 7.8-inch display gives it the largest screen among readers from the three major players.

That also makes it heavier than most of the competition, at 230 grams, but it’s still a few grams lighter than the Kobo Aura H2O—it feels surprisingly light given its screen size, and it’s much thinner than we expected. Its lighting system color-shifts to reduce blue light, which some people say makes falling asleep easier. The reader is also IPX8 waterproof, meaning it can survive up to 60 minutes in 2 meters of water. The Aura One has built-in OverDrive, allowing you to access and rent books directly from your local public library, and 8 GB of storage instead of the standard 4 GB. Veteran actor James Earl Jones’s mouth magnified at 10x on the Kindle Paperwhite (left) and the Kobo Aura One, both set to 0 percent brightness. Photos: Nick Guy The value of the Kobo Aura One’s larger screen is debatable. Some people will benefit from being able to use larger text and to see more on the screen, but we think it would be a drawback for many others, because the Aura One’s size makes it harder to carry around, and it won’t fit into a pocket, whereas 6-inch readers can.

We disliked the page-refresh animation that happens every six pages, and we found images to be more pixelated than on other readers. You don’t talk at all about sideloading content. I don’t buy from Amazon or B&N. I treat my ereader like an ereader, not a storefront for an estore. I have my own documents, free ebooks, stuff given to my by friends, CC-licensed stuff like Doctorow’s novels, etc. I use Calibre to manage them and sideload them onto my old white Nook Classic. Back in the day the old Nook was the easy choice because its sideloading was simple (especially paired with Calibre) as opposed to the old Kindles which couldn’t sideload.

Can the Paperwhite sideload as well as the Simple Touch, or is Nook the better choice if you’re not treating your ereader like a leash Amazon has put around you? I was super keep on the Kindle Paperwhite as soon as I saw it. When my Kindle Keyboard kicked the bucket I was ready to buy a Paperwhite immediately, the only thing that stopped me was the lack of audio.

I’m a dyslexic book lover and I used to use the read out loud feature though my head phones to have the kindle read at high speed while I read along. It was like an auditory finger on the page to help me keep my place. I really came to rely on that feature and I’m going to end up buying another Keyboard. Which is too bad, because Paperwhite is clearly the better eReader.

After 2 years of using Kindle’s as my primary eReader, I realized that frequently turned to my iPhone to look up words, take notes in Evernote, and follow links that were in the text. Some of this was doable on the Kindle paperwhite itself, but the interface made these tasks feel like pushing a car uphill.

Enter the iPad Mini, which let me continue to access my amazon library and increased my available sources for books by a large degree. It also made it easy to check email, Facebook, open links referenced in the book in a tabbed browser, and in general not need to keep my smartphone by my side when reading. I gained all of these benefits as a trade off for not having e-ink, a much shorter battery life, a higher price, and a larger form factor device for reading.

Truth is, I found my reading experience much improved. I never read outdoors, I don’t read for more that 1-2 hours per session, and the weight of the iPad mini is just fine. I find the larger screen size improves my reading experience. If you tend to read outdoors for 10 hours or longer, get the Kindle, otherwise I recommend a tablet because it you can still use kindle reader plus any of the huge number of reading applications available for iPads. We aren’t privy to Amazon’s pricing plans, but given that the Voyage is $199 and rarely dips below that, while the Paperwhite is frequently on sale for $99, I’d be surprised to see the Voyage drop in price enough to make it an easy step up from the Paperwhite. If it does drop in price soon, I suspect it would be to something like $179.

If you think you’d enjoy the Voyage’s improvements enough to warrant the price premium, go for it — if the price eventually drops $20 or so, just think of it as the cost of being able to have and use the Voyage in the interim 😉 But if you don’t care enough about the Voyage’s extras to pay $60 or $80 more, I’d go with the Paperwhite. It really depends on what you’re reading, whether you already have books in an ecosystem, and the like. If you’ve been buying Amazon Kindle ebooks for years, the Nook Touch won’t let you read those. Alternatively, if you buy a bunch of books for a Nook Touch and decide in a couple years to switch to Kindle, those books won’t be compatible with the Kindle. We think the Kindle is the best reader with the best selection of books, but individual people have different circumstances that will inform their purchase decision. The problem with amazon’s e-readers is that they lock you in to their eco system. I have a large collection of amazon books and google play books.

Unfortunately, there is no e-reader that does both. In this regard I’m very against Amazon. They are purposefully not playing nice with everyone else in this front.

Kobo for example works with everything except amazon and Apple(another consumer lock-in asshole). Amazon kindle, doesn’t work with anything but Amazon. I’m not sure how well integrated Kobo is with other services so although it may work, it may also work poorly. For now I’m sticking to an android tablet, seems to have the best of all worlds(no apple books, but that is also apple’s fault). IPad may do all of the above, but purchasing is severely gimped for non apple.

This is the first review i’ve read on this site where i’ve been really disappointed and felt a little misled. I use this site for just about everything on it but, now i’m left wondering if maybe i wasn’t paying enough attention to the rest of the things i’ve read here and on sweethome. Convert Pdf To Env Format. I came to find out which ereader was the best and instead got told which ebook store was the biggest.

Then, the reviewer implies that one of his major concerns was maintaining access to his personal library stored on amazon. This review really feels like a major deviation from the relatively impartial, unbiased and inclusive reviews i usually read on this site. I really think this one needs to be redone. I’m sorry if this sounds rude but, its pretty easy to be the ‘best’ when noone else was even seriously considered. Judging from the text, It seems like all the reviewer did was hit up the first review he found on a random site.

I know its possible the article may have been cut for length but, again judging purely from the text, it doesn’t seem like the reviewer has ever even touched any ereader besides his kindle. Its like if we went to the best smartphone article and the reviewer told us his old Motorola Razr was the best because its what he’s always used and its good enough for him. The kindle may or may not be the best but, without some sort of real comparison, thats very very far from being established. My kindle doesn’t get much use. Amazon books are competitively priced, but book services like Oyster and Scribd have many books as part of their 10 dollar a month unlimited service.

I have been keeping track and also writing down the kindle prices for books I have read the last 4 months. Thus far only one book out of 16 was on Kindle Unlimited. I would really love to save my tired eyes and Kindle can do that now if it would just work with competitors programs. Instead I am a loyal Apple fan. Scribd even has 40,000 audiobooks. Unstoppable Movie Mp4 Free Download.

Many I thought of getting on Audible. The Amazon model is becoming tired and they never offer any incentives to long time, loyal subscribers. Have used Audible since 2008, but now would rather borrow than buy. When will Amazon catch on to this?

This article inspired me to do my own research to replace my aging kindle, i ended up getting a kobo glo, I’ve only had it few days but so far i don’t regret it. The only advantage this article details in depth is the size of the amazon kindle library.

I’d say you’d be well off with any of the other choices if you don’t use the kindle store. I haven’t compared more than a few of the models out there in depth, so i’m not really qualified to say that with any authority though. For your specific purposes, i’ve heard that the Kobo is android based, or at least someone managed to get android on it, i haven’t had a chance to research it but, i imagine access to native android apps would probably give you a lot more choices as far as reading software more focused on comics and similar items.

I’ve heard similar things about the Nook series. My old Kindle didn’t have any kind of built in lighting, so it didn’t have any bright pixel problems. I haven’t noticed any bright pixels on my kobo but, that used to be a pretty common problem for some different screen types, usually you’d just return it until you got one you were happy with. I imagine you could follow the same process with your paperwhite provided its a recent purchase. It might be a bit frustrating but, just keep returning it til you get a good one?

Your solution works for the folks who are technically inclined, and if you’re willing to do that — and you aren’t as interested in recent commercial books — then you can go with whatever reader’s hardware you like the best. (We still like the Paperwhite for black-and-white reading, but the other vendors’ hardware has gotten better since the last major update to this guide.) We’re in the process of doing a major update, FYI.

(On my family’s two 2014 Paperwhites, I haven’t seen any bright pixel issues.) •. This article is ridiculous. I don’t even see evidence that Amazon has the biggest ebook store, despite the article being entirely based on that premise. With players such as Apple and Google in the game, it can’t possibly be claimed that they are the only established brand either.

Finally, with every other e-reader using the epub format, it seems that the Kindle is the least compatible with other readers. This is a huge argument against the Kindle. Amazon is a great bookstore, but is it better than all the other ones combined?

At the very least readers should be warned, if not directly discouraged from getting locked into a single vendor which uses a proprietary format. Ignore this article and get a reader that uses epubs. If you already own books from Apple, Google or any other bookstore, you can bring them over without resorting to DRM breaking hacks.

If you can conceive of a future where you might want to use any other platform, its a no-brainer. We’re in the process of updating this guide to our latest format, and with the latest information. That update will include research on the various e-book libraries — how many each platform has, how many of those are popular titles, etc.

That said, few current commercial titles are available in epub format, and converting iBooks, for example, to epub requires removing DRM. (It’s easier, in fact, to convert epub to read on a Kindle 😉 ) Most non-techie folks want to click a button and read a book, so platform libraries are still important. Adobe Digital Editions is a proprietary platform as well. With Kindle, it is straightforward to install the open source Calibre document manager, and strip DRM from Kindle. Along with the very large selection of documents on libgen.io, I find the Kindle Paperwhite to be a highly functional device.

Access to other bookstores such as Google Play Books, iBooks, B&N, and Kobo are not a problem, as using a desktop app and then importing into Calbre works for decryption and conversion from epub to mobi. I LOVED my Kindle Keyboard. It was just perfect! A solidly built Kindle!

Overtime I’m sure the buttons wear out. Mine was getting loose but I had it about 5 years then I accidently broke it. Otherwise I would never get the Paperwhite or Voyage.

WHAT I HATE and it seems NO ONE dashes Amazon for it, but how it constantly reminds you that your personal documents (BOOKS) are second class! The nice footnote feature doesn’t work with MOBI books you send to Kindle.

You can’t send your AZW books to Kindle you have to side load them. If you side load they punish you by not letting you see the book covers. You can’t enjoy your Kindle without being constantly reminded they don’t really like you. I HATE the idea that the news media eats up everything Amazon does! They added a button to the Kindle!

But they don’t publish the fact that Amazon is treating our books with disdain! If more news media complained about this, it might make Amazon ease up a little on their treatment.

“the Kobo Glo HD, is more expensive than the Kindle Paperwhite” By $10, and you don’t have to pay $20 to remove ad spam. I call that $10 cheaper, or at least a draw. In any case, how about some discussion on the software features of each device (differentiating features like GoodRead and XRay, how well things like hilighting and dictionary lookup work) and a look at book availability and the ecosystems around the devices. I’d love to switch to a Nook for the waterproofing, but the device is a brick without content. “That said, ebook readers can’t stand on the strength of their hardware alone. While all readers allow you to side-load unprotected content, it’s important that they easily provide access to a large library of commercial books. We looked up 65 ebook titles from the February 7, 2016, New York Times Best Sellers list, noting availability and price; our book selection represented a number of categories, including fiction, nonfiction, advice/how-to, and graphic novels.

In addition to the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo stores, we checked for the same tiles in Apple’s iBooks Store and in Google Play for comparison’s sake. For this update, we looked only at English-language books and Roman character sets, but we may test with other languages and characters for a future update.” •. This article doesn’t have the in-depth discussion of product strengths and drawbacks that I expect from Wirecutter. It reads almost entirely like an ad for Amazon. Readers who don’t only read novels seem to have been completely ignored.

For one thing, more and more picture-heavy ebooks like cookbooks, travel books and non-fiction are coming out. How does each ereader handle images?

It’s an important question so that readers aren’t unpleasantly surprised when they try to buy a book prior to a trip and find out it’s useless because of the format. I have a medium-to-large elibrary, with quite a few pdfs (manga, technical reference books, various documents, scanned books of my own, etc). I need an ereader with expandable storage or 32GB of internal storage. I’m certainly not the only one with this issue, as more and more heavy readers are moving to ebooks and more comics are releasing in digital formats. I don’t see any discussion of which ereader does best with PDFs. No mention of reflow or how the software handles large files. I don’t see any discussion of what can reasonably be stored in 4 GB – one brief mention that is clearly based on just using the proprietary formats is inadequate.

The existence of expandable storage gets a brief and dismissive mention. I don’t see any mention of large-screen ereaders that have come out from Sony or I think Onyx. These have already been making inroads among road warriors or document heavy businesses and are worth a look for people who want to cut down on paper shuffling. I don’t see any mention of Android ereaders – fair enough, since they are a niche product, but I would expect at least a brief mention as they seem to be improving rapidly and becoming more popular. In short, this article seems completely out of character for the Wirecutter. I can’t use this to sort out what I would like to buy. I can’t even use it to help friends make a decision!

The point of review sites like the Wirecutter is that they sort through the various products in a field and provide and overview + recommendations. This article doesn’t do that. Great review but I totally disagree with “We also like the GlowLight Plus’s home button”. Many people on B&N’s forum hate this button and return it for exactly that reason. It’s not a button that needs to be pressed – only touched. When you read and move your fingers around you’ll end up touching it accidentally and nothing is more annoying than being brought back to the home menu in the middle of a thrilling scene.

This is not a phone where you switch between apps all the time. This is an e-reader. You’re supposed to read a specific book for minutes or hours. If you use it like a phone and switch between books within seconds or minutes you’re doing something wrong. I have been using a Nexus tablet (android) with the Kindle app for several years. Advancing age (90) has resulted in diminishing visual acuity so I bought a paperwhite. These comments are based on my experiences which are certainly not unique.

Probably not uncommon but not unique. My vision needs enlarged print, greater line spacing and brighter screen. The psperwhite at the brightest setting was not as satisfactory as the tablet. Print size and spacing offered nothing better. Several of my Kindle books can not be read on the paperwhite because of incompatible formats. Since my Kindle library is mostly books that I use for reference and rereading the most used portion of my library is unavailable, An obvious negative. A few of my references use numbered lines or paragraphs.

The app identifies the presence of a footnote by making the numbers blue instead of black. The paperwhite makes no differentiation between lines with footnotes and those without. The Kindle formatting could have made the footnote related numbers inboldface or italic for example. They didn’t and therefore Kindle formatted books are more difficult to use–not impossible but annoying. Finally the smaller page size puts less text on a page and this results in more page turning forward and back which interrupts the reading experience. To sum up I was disappointed in the paperwhite.

Perhaps I hoped for too much based on the glowing review. My paperwhite is going back.

I recently bought the Kindle Fire because it was on sale. Prior to that, I had the Nook Glow Light, which I then sold. I often wonder if B&N is getting out of the ereader market totally, so that’s why I thought it would be a good choice/investment. What I didn’t realize until just yesterday is that you can’t read it outside! And it wasn’t even that sunny. Wow, I feel like I’ve been cheated. It might be worth it once it gets dark out in the summer.

(The main reason why I ever began with ereaders in the first place.) But not being able to walk around reading a book is a huge disappointment. I could not see a thing on it, the glare was so bad!

I have a Kobo Aura and prefer it over my girlfriends Kindle. There are a lot of positives with the Kobo that are not mentioned in this article, not counting how many of the books I read are in ePub format or rented from a Library. For example the Kobo let you add custom fonts from your computer and really make the experience just like you want it. Prefer to read books in the Roboto font? You can do that on a Kobo. It’s also super nice to have the book cover filling up the lock-screen.

My Kobo actually looks like the book I’m currently reading. My girlfriends Kindle look like an Amazon ad. I’m still rocking my 1st-gen Paperwhite 4G (it’s my 3rd Kindle, I had an original, and a 2nd-gen Kindle Keyboard.) The battery isn’t as great as it used to be, but it’s been a great purchase, and I’ve churned through hundreds of books by this point.

It doesn’t actually bother me that it’s tightly-coupled into Amazon because they’ve done such a great job integrating the two, so it’s actually an advantage instead of an example of lock-in. Yeah, I won’t be able to pass these books down to the grandkids I don’t have, but they are unlikely to share my tastes in books anyway. Just to add to the update, of the update.

On the Kobo’s latest firmware/software update (actually not sure when they added it), the full-page refresh can be controlled. Before it used to be an automatic “every 6 pages” but now you can choose something like 2, 4, 6, 10 pages or every chapter or OFF. Btw, the kindle has a page refresh option also, it is either ON (every page) or OFF (after a certain time passes, something like 20-30 pages). This might not be for everybody, but for myself, I have a “pocket” eReader I carry everywhere, the Sony PRS-350 (7 years old now) with a 5″ screen. And a Kobo H2O that I use for travel on airplanes or longer reading sessions (just finished a 2 night 7 hour reading of Redshirts on it.) I wish someone would make a modern 5″ eReader again. I’m hoping my PRS-350 doesn’t die on me.

It has manual page turn buttons AND laser/IR (or whatever tech that is) touch screen but not backlit. So the 5″ eReader I use it like a paperback and the 7″ eReader I use it like a Hardcover book.

I think the market is missing the “pocket” eReader people. But because for eReader, the tech doesn’t advance as fast, once you buy one there isn’t really a reason to “upgrade” like a phone every 1-2 years. The next big jump that’s always on the horizon is a color eReader tech. And the market for that is totally different, it will be for Comics/Textbooks/PDF readers etc.

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