When trying to find the ultimate ebook reader, the Plutonic ideal, there’s a few things we are looking for.
Comfort: A lot of technical gibberish boils down to this one word. Comfort. A lot of factors to converge to go into making that happen, and it’s easier to fail at it than you might think. Ergonomics sure, but even size, the number and location of buttons, and screen brightness plays into this. When reading, you want your hands and your eyes to be comfortable.
Long lasting battery: An ebook reader is an alternative to lugging around books. The battery life shouldn’t compare with phones or tablets. It should last you much, much longer. In general, these picks will be able to go weeks without as much as a charge. If we can get through an entire book before an eReader dies, that’s a pretty great sign.
ePaper Screen: E-paper (or ePaper, fuck, I don’t know), either way this always gets a thumbs up from me. it’s not as high fidelity a screen as you’ll get on an iPad or OLED TV, but these are much easier on your eyes. When it comes to writing and taking notes on them, they are also much better at mimicking the feel of writing on paper. So that’s pretty neat.
Access to content: I hate to call books “content,” but access to books, audiobooks, and other documents is the cornerstone of an ebook reader that people will use. This is the number one reason Kindles are so easy to recommend.
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