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Best basic e-book reader
Pros: excellent value, slim and light, easy-to-read display, large e-bookstore, large online bookstore
Cons: poor typing controls, limited mostly to Amazon books
Amazon
Integrated dictionary, annotation and search features, share comments and highlighted passages via Facebook and Twitter, music player, basic web browser, password protection, WhisperSync, Kindle Owners' Lending Library (Amazon Prime required)
6.5 by 4.5 by 0.34
5.98 oz.
6-inch E Ink
4 weeks
Physical buttons
2 GB
Wi-Fi
Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion
1 year
N/A
814916014361
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Best touchscreen e-book reader
Pros: great E Ink display with fast page flipping, two-month battery life, huge bookstore and expandable memory, reads ePub format and supports lending
Cons: no 3G, relatively few extra features
Barnes & Noble
Free Wi-Fi and help at Barnes & Noble Stores, no advertisements
6.5 by 5.0 by 0.47
7.48
6-inch E Ink
8 weeks
Touchscreen; physical page turn buttons available
2 GB (with 750MB dedicated to system use)
Wi-Fi
PDF, ePub, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
1 year
Simple Touch
9781400532711
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Best illuminated e-book reader
Pros: lit display, crisp, responsive touchscreen display, robust feature set, two-month battery life
Cons: limited e-book format support, ads on lockscreen
not avail.
Amazon
Integrated dictionary, annotation and search features, share comments and highlighted passages via Facebook and Twitter, music player, basic web browser, password protection, WhisperSync, Kindle Owners' Lending Library (Amazon Prime required)
6.7 by 4.6 by 0.36
7.5 oz.
6-inch Paperwhite
8 weeks
Touchscreen
2 GB
Wi-Fi
Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion
1 year
N/A
848719000139