The screen is 6 inches on the diagonal and the device measures 5.7 x 4.5 x. The Nook GlowLight 4 has a smaller screen and an overall smaller size. While it's not a major flaw, it does make the device a little harder to hold one-handed. The back of the device is not entirely flat, however, because of some beveling around the corners and smooth, rounded edges. The Kindle Paperwhite is the larger of the two devices, with a 6.8-inch screen on the diagonal. The size and thinness of each e-reader (the Nook is smaller, but the thinness is nearly equal). I've found it's definitely the best e-reader option at this mid-range price point. In every category, the Kindle Paperwhite pulled ahead, even if sometimes it was a very close judgment. The six categories used for testing the devices were: size of the device, which includes the device's design battery life screen features, including brightness and warmth settings page turn, testing the responsiveness of the page turn buttons and screen refresh content options, which encompasses all of the ways each brand allows users to add books and accessibility with fonts, left-handed options, and features for the visually impaired. To see which e-reader will give you the best reading experience at a mid-range price point, I thoroughly tested the Kindle Paperwhite against the Nook GlowLight 4. An ad-free Kindle Paperwhite costs $159.99. Typically these are Kindle Unlimited romances, so it's important to consider whether you want these ads. When you lock the Kindle, instead of displaying a screensaver or the cover of the book you're currently reading, it defaults to advertisements for other books. It's important to note that, though the Paperwhite starts at $139.99, that price is for a model that is ad-supported. Nook offers two models: a full-color LCD tablet designed with Lenovo ($129.99) and the GlowLight 4 ($149.99), which is more comparable to Amazon's product line because it uses the same E Ink technology. Today, Amazon is one of the biggest names on the e-reader market with its Kindle line.īarnes and Noble, the bookstore with the largest number of retail stores in the United States, also has a line of e-readers called Nook.Īmazon offers three models of Kindle: the standard Kindle (from $89.99), Kindle Paperwhite (from $139.99), and Kindle Oasis (from $249.99). Before Amazon was the multinational e-commerce giant we know it as today, the company started as an online marketplace for books.

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