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| Model | Rating | Screen Size | Touch Screen | Weight | Price |
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Kindle 3 |
6.0 | 8.5 |
$139.00
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Kindle DX |
9.7 | 18.9 |
$379.00
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Nook |
6.0 |
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12.0 |
$139.00
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Nook Color |
7.0 |
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15.8 |
$249.00
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All-New Nook |
6.0 |
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7.5 |
$139.00
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Sony PRS 600RC Touch Edition |
6.0 |
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10.1 |
$119.98
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Sony PRS 900BC Daily Edition |
7.0 |
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12.1 |
$220.00
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BeBook Neo |
6.0 |
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10.0 | $249.00 | |
Kobo eReader |
6.0 | 7.0 | $149.99 | ||
Alex eReader |
6.0 |
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11.0 | $399.00 | |
enTourage eDGe |
9.7 |
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44.0 | $498.00 |
How to buy an E-book Reader?
The main advantages of electronic book readers are convenience and choice. You can carry an entire library of ebooks with you and pick and read any from them at any moment. As market of electronic reading grows, ebook readers are becoming an affordable option for the masses. However, many depend on what reading device you use for reading. With the rising popularity of e-book readers, choosing the e-reader that right for you can be a non trivial task. The above table compares the top ebook readers available at the market and intended to help you with to make right choice. Below is a list of things to consider when selecting an ebook reader:
Screen
The type of screen that the device makes use of has a major effect on the readability, functionality, battery life, price and more. There are two display technologies available for ebook readers: Electronic Ink (E-Ink) is a paperlike display used primarily in e-book readers and Liquid Crystal Display(LCD) - most popular technology for screens of mobile devices . E-ink has major advantage over other display technologies like LCD in terms of reading comfort - screen contrast because E-ink displays reflect light like ordinary paper. However, e-ink lacks competition when comparing to liquid crystal displays in terms of ability to display colors, refresh speed and touchscreen support. Some of ebook devices, such as Barnes & Noble Nook Color, combine E-ink display for reading and a color LCD display for navigation.
Battery Life
The e-ink models offer longer battery life than the devices equipped with LCD screen, because the E-ink screen require no power to display an page. The power only used to change pages. As the result e-ink devices have long battery life and can operate for weeks on single battery charge. To measure battery life for ebook readers page turns terms is used - that is, how many pages the device will display unless it needs to be recharged. Look for several thousand page turns of battery life, if you travel a lot.
Content
Electronic books are published in a variety of formats and almost each ereader manufacturer has its own ebook store. Most advanced e-book readers, like Amazon Kindle, allow you to download books from dedicated content services anywhere and anytime. However if you want to read free, public domain books or your own documents, you would better to look at an ebook reader that have support for open formats. For example, Google offers more than a million free books in the popular free and open ePub format that is not supported by popular Kindle reader.