{"id":16719,"date":"2024-11-27T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/the-8-best-e-readers-tried-and-tested-from-kindle-to-kobo-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:39:01","slug":"the-8-best-e-readers-tried-and-tested-from-kindle-to-kobo-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/the-8-best-e-readers-tried-and-tested-from-kindle-to-kobo-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 best e-readers, tried and tested \u2013 from Kindle to Kobo and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever<\/p>\n<p>E-readers have been one of the greatest single-purpose gadgets for almost three decades. They offer an escape from technology and the endless distraction of mobile phones, despite also being tech devices.<\/p>\n<p>But that is starting to change. Colour ebook readers, for graphic novels, magazines and books, are now fairly common, and there are several models designed for note-taking. Plus, a whole family of these devices uses Android, meaning they can run all of those apps that often distract from reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best e-reader overall: <br \/><\/strong>Kindle Paperwhite<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/kindle-paperwhite-2024\/dp\/B0CFPXBJ9Y\"><sub>\u00a3124.99 at Amazon<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best colour e-reader:<\/strong> <br \/>\n Kobo Libra Colour<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currys.co.uk\/products\/kobo-libra-colour-7-ereader-32-gb-white-10263293.html\"><sub>\u00a3179 at Currys<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best affordable e-reader:<\/strong> <br \/>\n Kobo Clara BW<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Kobo-BW-Glare-Free-Touchscreen-ComfortLight\/dp\/B0CZXYV8GT\"><sub>\u00a3119 at Amazon<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best phone-style e-reader: <br \/><\/strong>Onyx Boox Palma 2<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/euroshop.boox.com\/products\/palma2?variant=51671609540971\"><sub>\u20ac299 at Boox<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/thefilter\/2024\/nov\/27\/best-ereaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/08893b36b0cdf9ba90d8763e0a24e778f04c8660\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d2b691e9cc0f92534b58de5464a4251a\" title=\"The 8 best e-readers, tried and tested \u2013 from Kindle to Kobo and beyond\" \/>In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever<br \/>\nE-readers have been one of the greatest single-purpose gadgets for almost three decades. They offer an escape from technology and the endless distraction of mobile phones, despite also being tech devices.<br \/>\nBut that is starting to change. Colour ebook readers, for graphic novels, magazines and books, are now fairly common, and there are several models designed for note-taking. Plus, a whole family of these devices uses Android, meaning they can run all of those apps that often distract from reading.<br \/>\nBest e-reader overall: Kindle Paperwhite\u00a3124.99 at Amazon<br \/>\nBest colour e-reader:<br \/>\n Kobo Libra Colour\u00a3179 at Currys<br \/>\nBest affordable e-reader:<br \/>\n Kobo Clara BW\u00a3119 at Amazon<br \/>\nBest phone-style e-reader: Onyx Boox Palma 2\u20ac299 at Boox Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where books have to vie with smartphones for attention, a brilliant ebook reader is more necessary than ever E-readers have been one of the greatest single-purpose gadgets for almost three decades. They offer an escape from technology and the endless distraction of mobile phones, despite also being tech devices. But that is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/the-8-best-e-readers-tried-and-tested-from-kindle-to-kobo-and-beyond\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 8 best e-readers, tried and tested \u2013 from Kindle to Kobo and beyond<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}