What electronic liseuse choose? – Canoe

reading lights (or e-book readers), regardless of their price, are almost all screen 6 inches and equipped with Wi-Fi, have a range of several weeks and can store thousands of books in its internal memory (excluding offers of free storage on the Internet).

reading lamps more upscale offer free 3G for downloading books at any time, but is it really necessary?

Touchscreens the previous generation did not always meet very well, but this problem has been solved.

The significant differences between e-readers on the market to take lighting the screen resolution, weight and formats recognized eBooks.

class=”c3″> elements that can make a difference

– Lighting
Some models are not lit at all, as the basic Kindle or the Kobo Touch. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Kobo Glo and Aura are equipped with dimmable lighting that lets you play in the dark

-. Resolution
Kindle Basic supports a resolution of 167 dpi (dots per inch). Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Aura offering 212 dpi. The best resolution is offered by Kobo Aura HD 265 dpi

-. Weight
Since reading light will often be held in one hand or transported in a bag all day while traveling, the weight factor may be important. This is the Kindle (170g), through the Kobo Aura (174 g) and Kobo Touch and Glo (185 g) to the Kindle Paperwhite (206 g) and Kobo Aura HD (240 g).

– Formats eBook recognized
various existing formats, supported by individual reading lights, are ePub, mobi, AZW (Kindle), CBZ and CBR (comic -drawn) and prc (mobipocket), PDF and TXT.

The Kindle does not read ePub format or formats for comics, but read pdf, txt, unprotected mobi and prc .

The Kobo can read ePub formats, cbz and cbr, pdf, txt, html, rtf (and mobi for Kobo Touch and Aura)

Template, Free conversion software files, allows you to convert these files to ePub to read on Kindle

-. offer ebooks

The main difference comes from books Kindle sold by Amazon, which are azw proprietary format. This means that, theoretically, you can buy your books on Amazon and you can not use these books on e-readers from other manufacturers. But in practice, the Calibre software can also convert azw files to EPUB format. The Kobo primarily use the open ePub format.

Prime members can “borrow” a free book a month for their Kindle.

In addition to dedicated eReaders such shops or this brand, you can buy books, ePub or PDF file on other sites (see below).

class=”c3″> Selection of the best e-reader of the moment

– Paperwhite Amazon Kindle, the best reading lamp market
– Kobo Aura HD (6.8-inch screen, larger than other eReaders)
– Kobo Aura
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class=”c3″> sites that sell ebooks

Quebec
– Archambault
– Renaud Bray
– LivresQuébecois.com
– Amazon
– Google Play

France (French market)
– Amazon
– Kobo by Fnac
– Google Play

In addition to paid books, some websites offer a lot of free public domain books

Also on Canoe.ca:

• best digital book shops