Why Buy an eBook Reader?

You can go anywhere, just take a look, it's in a book. From the African jungles in Michael Crichton’s Congo to the farmlands of China in Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth to right at home with the magazine Martha Stewart Living, books expand horizons. We’ve all heard since shows like Wishbone and Reading Rainbow that books have the power to take us anywhere. One library, so many possibilities.

eBook readers take it one step further. One device holds about a library and gives you as many of your favorite book titles at your fingertips as you could ever really want. Plus, they make it easy to take notes, save clippings of quotations and highlight passages we want to be able to find again. They’re convenient, portable and good for the environment. In fact, the only real downside we can see to an electronic book over a real paper book is that you’ll have a few more problems if you accidentally spill your coffee on it or get splashed at the pool.

Find out if an eBook reader is right for you, in this site we give you some of the reasons for switching to digital. Here at TopTenREVIEWS you’ll find reviews and comparisons of the best eBook readers out there some of the content that can be available. Because, at TopTenREVIEWS, we do the research so you don’t have to.™

What to Look for in an eBook Reader

Most people only know Kindle. But there is a variety of eBook readers available, some with other features that may be more attractive than the Kindle. Here are the factors we considered to effectively compare these electronic books.

• Features: From touchscreens to LED backlights to the Read to Me feature on the Kindle 2, there are a lot of features that will help your eBook reader disappear so it’s just you and the text. Features like the touchscreen, screen size and type and the wireless capabilities were given more weight.
• Content: Some of the eBook readers have hundreds of thousands of titles available from a dedicated service while others can support a few files found on the internet. We rated the number of content available for the device and how many different types of book files each device can support.
• Value: We rated the price over the features set. Does the price really reflect the number of important features you are getting?
• Tech Support: With every electronic device there is a potential for problems, or you may really spill your coffee on it. Before you purchase an eBook reader, know what kind of support you can expect.

The best eBook readers will have a good combination of each of these and will disappear as you read, just like a normal book would.