The Best E-Readers, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Other Good Ebook Readers

Below, you'll find a fewer much e-readers we for illustration but don't needfully emotion arsenic overmuch arsenic our apical picks.

Kindle Scribe 2024 for $400: The Scribe (8/10, WIRED Review) is simply a awesome action if you want an e-reader that doubles arsenic a integer notebook, but besides want to stay wrong nan Kindle ecosystem. It has a 10.2-inch (300 ppi) paperlike show pinch features for illustration adjustable lukewarm ray and an auto-adjusting beforehand light. The included Premium Pen besides has a soft-tipped eraser (mimicking that of a No.2 pencil). With Active Canvas and expandable margins, you tin besides people up ebooks and constitute notes successful nan broadside panel.

Nook GlowLight 4 Plus for $180: The 4 Plus is nan only waterproof Nook successful nan lineup, and it has nan biggest surface astatine 7.8 inches, on pinch 32 GB of storage. It besides has beingness page-turn buttons and a headphone jack for listening to audiobooks (but you tin besides link wireless earbuds via Bluetooth). But it was often slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. While nan ample room has cheap and moreover free ebooks, it's not arsenic bully a action arsenic Kindle Unlimited. The process of getting a book from nan room connected a Nook is besides beyond frustrating. You'll request to download either Adobe Digital Editions aliases Android File Transfer earlier connecting nan instrumentality to your machine physically and past transferring nan files.

Kindle Colorsoft for $280: The Kindle Colorsoft (7/10, WIRED Review) is Amazon's first Kindle pinch a colour screen. It has a surface pinch an oxide backplane, which Amazon says delivers amended opposition and image value on pinch custom-formulated coatings and nitride LEDs for brightness and colour accuracy. But nan surface is capped astatine 150 ppi for colour images, versus 300 ppi for achromatic and white, and nan acquisition of reference is still a small fuzzier erstwhile compared to nan latest Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to process colour images, too. It's missing features that are by now modular connected different colour e-readers, for illustration page move buttons and stylus support. It's not a bad Kindle, and colour does enrich nan full e-reading experience, but we propose waiting for a discount during an Amazon waste event.

Kobo Clara Colour for $160: Kobo's Clara Colour seems to beryllium disappearing from unit store, truthful it's apt that there's a successor connected nan measurement (or Kobo is conscionable nixing it). It's a shame because I really for illustration it, particularly compared to nan Kindle Colorsoft. It's much affordable, but you still get to spot book covers aliases schematic novels successful afloat color, and you tin item successful colour too. In testing, I recovered that immoderate books weren't arsenic easy connected nan eyes, for illustration nan blue-and-yellow colour strategy of Curious George, but that was 1 mini gripe successful an different seamless reference experience. The Clara lacks page-turn buttons, but nan 6-inch surface size is comfortable for one-handed use. It has 16 gigabytes of retention alternatively than 32, but that's still astir 12,000 books. There's Overdrive integration and Bluetooth support. It's besides waterproof, made from recycled materials, and is repairable.

Nook 9-inch Lenovo Tablet for $130: If you chiefly publication cookbooks aliases different color-intensive materials, and you want a dedicated reader, you mightiness want to see this affordable tablet from Nook and Lenovo, which has nan Nook app built successful (6/10, WIRED Review). As pinch nan tablets mentioned above, you suffer nan E Ink surface and nan distraction-free quality of an e-reader. You tin astatine slightest move disconnected notifications while successful definite apps, which I urge doing for nan Nook app. It ships pinch an aged type of Android, and it's not built for dense activity for illustration video aliases photograph editing.

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