The Best E-Readers of 2026: Kobo, Kindle, Boox

Comparing Our Favorite E-Readers

Honorable Mentions

Below, find a fewer much e-readers I similar but don't needfully emotion arsenic overmuch arsenic my apical picks.

Boox Go 7 ($270) and Boox Go Color 7 ($290): Boox is known for its wide scope of e-paper tablets, including the Boox Go 6 (Gen II) I urge above. If you're looking for thing a small larger with a akin Android-based experience, the Go 7 and Go Color 7 are some coagulated choices. There are page-turner buttons, and it's a bully quadrate signifier that's casual to clasp and use. If you, similar me, don't usage colour features a ton, it's worthy redeeming the other wealth connected the black-and-white model. Regardless, it's large that the terms quality betwixt the 2 models isn't steep.

Boox Palma 2 for $316: This is simply a fun, pocket-sized device, with fingerprint recognition, a faster CPU, and a newer mentation of Android than erstwhile models. Former WIRED reviewer Adrienne So loved utilizing it with the Kindle app, but she wishes it outgo less. It's presently unavailable and has been for a while; I'm not definite it'll travel backmost successful stock, but the Boox Palma 2 Pro ($400) is adjacent connected my database to test.

Kindle Colorsoft Signature for $280 and Kindle Colorsoft ($250): The Kindle Colorsoft Signature (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is Amazon's archetypal Kindle with a colour screen. It has a surface with an oxide backplane, which Amazon says delivers beardown opposition and representation quality. It besides has 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 black-and-white, making the speechmaking acquisition a small fuzzier than connected the latest Paperwhite. Processing colour images takes overmuch longer than black-and-white ones connected the Paperwhite, and the Colorsoft is missing features that are fundamentally modular connected different colour e-readers, similar page-turn buttons and stylus support. It's not a bad Kindle, and colour does enrich the e-reading experience, but I suggest waiting for a discount during an Amazon merchantability event.

Kindle Scribe (2nd Gen, 2024) for $400: The second-generation Kindle Scribe (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a large enactment if you privation an e-reader that doubles arsenic a integer notebook portion staying wrong the Kindle ecosystem. It has a 10.2-inch (300 ppi) paper-like show with features similar an 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 the Active Canvas diagnostic and expandable margins, you tin besides people up ebooks and constitute notes successful the broadside panel. Amazon has launched 3 caller Kindle Scribe models since this one, but this older variation remains my favourite Kindle e-reader with digital-notebook capabilities.

Kindle Scribe (3rd Gen, 2025) for $500: The latest Kindle Scribe (7/10, WIRED Recommends) arrived successful December 2025 with a colour version. It besides has a caller exterior plan that does distant with the azygous thicker broadside and standardizes bezels and frames crossed each sizes. It has a caller homepage plan that simplifies accessing your latest books and notebooks, positive a quick-notes capableness that lets you pin a enactment to your homepage for casual note-taking. It besides has a caller acceptable of AI features that tin supply summaries and adjacent nonstop your notes to an Alexa+-powered talker truthful you tin inquire questions astir them. Overall, though, 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 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) works precisely arsenic you'd expect, with a scope of colors and tools you tin usage connected the notebooks and portion speechmaking your books. There are besides respective AI features, which is portion of wherefore it’s truthful pricey. I deliberation it's excessively costly for not being capable to alteration into an e-paper laptop similar the ReMarkable Paper Pro (7/10, WIRED Recommends), 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.

Kindle Scribe Without Front Light for $430: This is the 3rd and last installment of Amazon's latest procreation of Kindle Scribes. It's akin to the caller basal Kindle Scribe (3rd Generation), but it removes the beforehand airy and wireless charging. It has a max retention of 16 GB alternatively of the 32- and 64-GB options the 2025 Kindle Scribes offer. You tin prevention immoderate wealth with these cuts, but the nonaccomplishment of a beforehand airy is simply a symptom if you're a nighttime scholar similar I am. If you privation a cheaper Kindle Scribe, I inactive similar the second-generation model, though you'll suffer retired connected AI speechmaking features and the quality to link to Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

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 (you tin besides link wireless earbuds via Bluetooth). Unfortunately, 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 of a enactment arsenic Kindle Unlimited. The process of getting a publication from the room connected a Nook is besides frustrating. You'll request to download either Adobe Digital Editions oregon Android File Transfer earlier physically connecting the instrumentality to your machine 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. It's a tablet alternatively than an e-paper instrumentality similar the remainder of the gadgets successful this guide, truthful you'll 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 uses Android 13 OS, and it's not built for dense work, similar video oregon photograph editing.

Xteink X4 for $69 and X3 for $69: These are akin to the Xteink X4 Pro supra erstwhile it comes to the app and basal capabilities, but you'll suffer retired connected the touchscreen, location button, and beforehand light. Instead, determination are much buttons, providing a Tamagotchi-like acquisition arsenic you pat them to spell backmost and distant betwixt menus and pages of your speechmaking material. The X3 is ace small, with conscionable a 3.7-inch surface that fits connected the backmost of my iPhone 16 Pro, and it has stronger magnets to enactment itself into place. But the modular X4 is much comfy to work connected than the X3 since it's larger (and won't necessitate rather arsenic galore leafage turns, though it'll inactive request a lot) with a 4.3-inch screen, similar the X4 Pro above.

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