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What eReader Should I buy?

E-book reader has many advantages. E-book reader is very stylish, has large capacity, not to hurt the eyes, lower power consumption. E-book reader is also convenient to carry.

Then how to choose an eReader? What things should you take consideration when you buy an eReader? Here, I list several professional aspects which can be useful to help you choose the best eRreader.

If you bought an eBook reader, you will have to come across the DRM issue. Your downloaded eBooks may have DRM, so you may need eBooks DRM Removal.

How to Choose eReader: Eink screen

You should be cautious of Eink screen when choosing eReader.

For long time mobile-reading, Eink screen has these benefits: display like paper books, not to hurt the eye, light read, super standby time and no radiation. This is * * TFT LCD screen that can't match. So when you choose an ereader or buy one, you have to look for the regular brands of Eink electronic ink. Now there are some counterfeit ebook readers in the market and make consumers confused. The so-called 5-inch 6-inch TFT display screen of "electronic book", has a strong entertainment features, you can listen to music, watch movies or play online games, in fact, these are just larger version of MP4, not the true sense of the e-book reader.

How to Choose eReader: Gray-scale

The 16 class gray-scale is key to choose an eReader.

In addition, when you choose to buy an e-book reader, I must also mention to gray. The Gray is like the 26 million color, 16 million colors screen of mobile phone. The different levels represent different levels of picture effects, the more level, the more delicate effect picture presented to. Such as, 16-level grayscale e-book products, refers to that the panel from black to white has 16 levels. It means that 16 gray can be adjusted more levels from black to white than eight gray. E-book readers currently on the market is divided into 4-level grayscale, 8-level grayscale, 16-level grayscale. Undoubtedly, 16-level grayscale display has the best effect, especially more obvious when reading comics or browsing pictures.

For the same use of PVI Eink e-book e-ink screen, the manufacturers' ability of developing hardware and software determines the strength and the actual gray-scale display, and the screen brightness (Whitness) will also differ. The so-called whiteness is the purity of the background screen, the image that analogy, like some books yellowed paper, some white, some gray. Generally agreed that the whiteness is higher, the screen will be better. In fact the higher the whiteness, the picture details is more likely to be lost. At the same time, from the perspective of protecting eyesight, white reflective effect will increase visual fatigue, therefore, do not pursuit the white background when you choose to buy an ereader, and you should take into account the details and visual comfort.

How to Choose eReader: Screen Size - 6 inches or 10 inches

Want to buy an e-book reader, in the end to buy small or large size, this is a headache. First, ask yourself these questions to answer three questions:

First, the usual venue of the reading: bedroom or outdoors?

Second, the usual format of the book? TXT, PDF, EPUB or others?

Third, do you have the needs to see scanned PDF?

E-book reader are available in the market from 5 inches to 10 inches. 6 inches is the gold size, and most brand products are starting from 6 inches. 10 inches are best size for the professional scanned version of PDF.

For TXT format, six inches is ideal. PDF and EPUB are more complex than the TXT presentation, and involve photo-text, not adaptive to screen, and the display font is too big and too small. Therefore, in the purchase of 6 inches e-book reader, you must consider whether it has PDF reflow capabilities, cut the PDF and EPUB's white side automatically and switching automatically function. The two functions can adjust the font to best fit the screen ratio, the switch screens can go up to 10-inch screen visual effects.

The popular eBook readers in the market supports TXT, PDF and EPUB formats. NOOK can read TXT, PDF and EPUB. Sony Reader supports TXT and EPUB. But Kindle only supports TXT, MOBI, AZW. So why you choose an ereader, figure out what format it supports. If not, you have to convert eBooks formats with PDF Converters, or ePub Converters.

Scanned version of the PDF is difficult to be read on 6-inch screen. This can only be solved through the big screen.

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