Top 4 Ebook Readers Review

Ebook reader is a device to display ebooks. Readability of their screens in bright sunlight, portability, battery life, product support, customer service and price value are important features the user should look for while purchasing one. Check the following reviews of some popular devices.

Amazon Kindle - Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines, and weighing only 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback, it has a new display technology delivering magazines and newspaper immediately, besides downloading and reading ebooks. The high resolution technology presents a device having wireless connectivity and a fine readability like paper without glare, even in bright sunlight. Kindle offers excellent customer experience comprising of personalized recommendations, and is ranked to be the one of finest as it stores up to 1,500 titles.

The Kindle is similar to using a book offering vertical page reading, turning pages using page buttons and is designed ergonomically. The search feature facilitates searching the entire Kindle library with over 360,000 books, and the battery life stays for a week and can be recharged within 2 hours. It is well featured with oxford American dictionary allowing uninterrupted reading, access to wikipedia and offers an in-built encyclopedia. It is priced at U$ 259.

JetBook by ECTACO - The JetBook reader is a popular mobile library for compelling reasons such as multilanguage ebook support, translating feature, easy navigation, auto page turning, MP3 music and unlimited e-library. It has the feature of storing a mammoth collection of books and is expandable through memory cards. This is a portable gadget in a palm fitting size, weighing only 7,5 ounces, and the VGA screen allows reading easily even in low lit areas. Being a mobile library, the translating dictionaries makes uninterrupted reading easy, besides the JetBook reader comes with a free pre-installed ebooks collection.

The SD card slot facilitates expanding storage up to 2 GB, thereby making the JetBook a significant resource library. The in-built search engine facilitates searching the entire e-library and bookmarking, besides auto page turning. The rechargeable battery offers active use for 20 hours and can be conveniently charged in 4 to 5 hours using AC/DC power or USB. It is priced at U$ 200.

Sony Portable Reader (PRS 500) - It is ranked high and provides fine reading experience, as it has 166 dpi resolution, eight levels of gray scale, and viewable in direct sunlight. It is also usable in portrait or landscape orientation. It has efficient operation providing 7500 page turns and stores internally 80 full length ebooks, besides supporting memory cards to store additional ebooks and content. This portable reader supports 8 GB memory stick and memory cards of 2GB.

This is a fine device utilizing new technology such that the text can be magnified to suit even sight impaired readers. Downloading and transferring electronic book titles, besides searching and browsing from the online eBook store are supported. The page back buttons hold the pages automatically and begins once the reader is back from the last page left before closing. It has the facility of transferring Adobe PDF documents as well as other file formats to the reader, and is chargeable using an AC Adapter or USB cable. It is priced at U$ 295.

Franklin eBookMan (EBM911) - It has many nice features, although it is not a dedicated ebook reader. The translating capabilities are impressive, MP3 music features and a personal organizer makes this ebook reader outstanding. It also has a touch screen with augmented polarizer, but lacks featuring reading in sunlight. It is a mobile library offering 50 MB free disk space, besides installed applications and storage of additional ebooks. Two batteries are used, but are non-rechargeable, yet feature bidirectional dictionary, music and audio book player, address book, memo book, calculator and voice memo. It is priced at U$ 165.

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Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for Polomercantil