The Best E-Readers (2026): Kobo, Kindle

Comparing Our Favorite E-Readers

Honorable Mentions

Below, you'll find a fewer much e-readers we similar but don't needfully emotion arsenic overmuch arsenic our apical picks.

Boox Go 7 ($250) and Boox Color Go 7 ($290): Boox is known for its wide scope of e-paper tablets, including the Palma 2 recommended above. If you're looking for thing a small larger with a akin Android-based experience, the Go 7 and Go Color 7 are a coagulated choice. There are leafage turner buttons, and it's a bully quadrate signifier that's casual to clasp and use. The Go 7 is black-and-white, but you tin get a colour surface for $40 much with the Go Color 7. I don't usage colour features a ton, truthful it's worthy redeeming wealth if you won't either, but it's large that the terms quality isn't steep.

Boox Palma 2 for $316: This is simply a amusive small pouch sized device, and it has a bully upgrade from the older exemplary with fingerprint recognition, a faster CPU, and a newer mentation of Android. WIRED Review Adrienne So loves utilizing it with the Kindle app, but she wishes it outgo less. It's presently unavailable, and I'm waiting to spot if it comes backmost successful banal oregon is replaced with a caller mentation this year.

Kindle Colorsoft Signature for $280 and Kindle Colorsoft ($250): The Kindle Colorsoft Signature is Amazon's archetypal Kindle with a colour screen. It has a surface with an oxide backplane, which Amazon says delivers amended opposition and representation prime on with custom-formulated coatings and nitride LEDs for brightness and colour accuracy. But the surface is capped astatine 150 ppi for colour images, versus 300 ppi for achromatic and white, and the acquisition of speechmaking is inactive a small fuzzier erstwhile compared to the latest Paperwhite. It takes noticeably longer to process colour images, too. It's missing features that are by present modular connected different colour e-readers, similar leafage crook buttons and stylus support. It's not a bad Kindle, and colour does enrich the full e-reading experience, but we suggest waiting for a discount during an Amazon merchantability event. Kindle has since launched a cheaper option, the Kindle Colorsoft ($250) that has little retention (only 16 GB, verus 32 GB) and nary auto-adjusting airy oregon wireless charging.

Kindle Scribe (2nd Gen, 2024) for $400: The second-generation Kindle Scribe is simply a large enactment if you privation an e-reader that doubles arsenic a integer notebook, but besides privation to stay wrong the Kindle ecosystem. It has a 10.2-inch (300 ppi) paperlike show with features similar adjustable lukewarm airy and an auto-adjusting beforehand light. The included Premium Pen besides has a soft-tipped eraser (mimicking that of a No.2 pencil). With Active Canvas and expandable margins, you tin besides people up ebooks and constitute notes successful the broadside panel. Amazon has announced 3 much Kindle Scribes are coming retired this winter, including colour options, truthful we'll beryllium investigating those erstwhile they're available.

Kindle Scribe (3rd Gen, 2025) for $500: The latest Kindle Scribe arrived successful December 2025 with a colour version, a caller exterior plan that does distant with the azygous thicker side, and adjacent bezels and frames crossed each sizes. It has a caller homepage plan that makes it casual to entree your latest books and notebooks, and a speedy notes leafage you tin besides hop into. It besides has a caller acceptable of AI features that tin summarize things for you and adjacent nonstop your notes to an Alexa+-powered talker truthful you tin inquire questions astir them, but overall, these features aren't indispensable and conscionable thrust up the price. The older Kindle Scribe (2nd Gen) is inactive my preferred enactment if you privation a Kindle e-reader that doubles arsenic a integer notebook.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for $630: Amazon brought the colour surface to the Kindle Scribe precocious past year, with a redesigned exterior to lucifer the caller third-gen Kindle Scribe. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft works precisely however you'd expect, with a scope of colors and tools you tin usage connected the notebooks and portion speechmaking your books arsenic well. There are besides respective AI features, which is portion of what makes it truthful pricey. I deliberation it's excessively costly for not being capable to alteration into an e-paper laptop similar the ReMarkable Paper Pro, but if you truly wanted to instrumentality with Kindle and person a colorful integer notebook and e-reader successful 1 device, this is the 1 to get.

Nook GlowLight 4 Plus for $200: The 4 Plus is the lone waterproof Nook successful the lineup, and it has the biggest surface astatine 7.8 inches, on with 32 GB of storage. It besides has carnal page-turn buttons and a headphone jack for listening to audiobooks (but you tin besides link wireless earbuds via Bluetooth). But it was often slower than my Kindle and tended to freeze. While the ample room has inexpensive and adjacent escaped ebooks, it's not arsenic bully a enactment arsenic Kindle Unlimited. The process of getting a publication from the room connected a Nook is besides beyond frustrating. You'll request to download either Adobe Digital Editions oregon Android File Transfer earlier connecting the instrumentality to your machine physically and past transferring the files.

Nook 9-inch Lenovo Tablet for $150: If you chiefly work cookbooks oregon different color-intensive materials, and you privation a dedicated reader, you mightiness privation to see this affordable tablet from Nook and Lenovo, which has the Nook app built in. As with the tablets mentioned above, you suffer the E Ink surface and the distraction-free quality of an e-reader. You tin astatine slightest crook disconnected notifications portion successful definite apps, which I urge doing for the Nook app. It ships with an aged mentation of Android, and it's not built for dense enactment similar video oregon photograph editing.

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