Why Buy an eBook Reader?

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. eReaders are about readability. They are designed to make your reading experience more enjoyable and less of a hassle. Nobody wants to take a stack of books with them on a business trip or long roadtrip. 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 a reader such as the Kindle 2, Kindle DX or the BeBook Neo is right for you as 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 and some of the content that can be available. Also do not forget to take a look our selection of articles on eBook readers. 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 eReaders 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.

Design
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 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 eReaders 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.

Memory/Battery Life
The life of your eReader is crucial. Nobody wants their reading device to run out of power before the climax of their novel. The number of pages that can be turned on a single charge and the amount of memory available for storing books makes the eReader experience more enjoyable.

Additional Features
There is always room for features while enjoying to a book. Some of these include the number of grayscale levels, audio formats, image formats, text-to-speech feature and so much more.

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