Devices
Pick your e-reader
Every model has a permanent hub with the same seven sections. Start here and drill in.
Kobo
Rakuten's e-reader line, popular with tinkerers for its open-ish firmware and strong KOReader and Calibre support.
- Libra Colour A 7-inch colour e-ink reader with physical page-turn buttons, waterproofing and optional stylus support — the most tweak-friendly mainstream Kobo.
- Clara BW A compact 6-inch black-and-white Kobo with a modern screen, warm light and Bluetooth audio — the enthusiast favourite for a pocketable KOReader device.
- Sage An 8-inch Kobo with page-turn buttons, waterproofing, stylus support and an optional battery cover — the large-screen Kobo for reading and light note-taking.
Kindle
Amazon's e-readers — the mainstream default. More locked down, so the guides lean on Calibre, formats and troubleshooting.
- Paperwhite Amazon's mid-range Kindle and the best-selling e-reader in the world — a 7-inch waterproof screen with weeks of battery.
- Scribe Amazon's 10.2-inch Kindle with an included pen — the large-format option for reading, handwritten notebooks and PDF markup inside the Kindle ecosystem.
- Basic The smallest, cheapest current Kindle — a 6-inch 300 ppi screen with no waterproofing and no warm light.
BOOX
Onyx's Android-based e-ink tablets and readers. The most flexible hardware, with the trade-offs that come with running full Android on e-paper.
- Go Color 7 A 7-inch Android colour e-ink reader with page-turn buttons and a microSD slot — it runs any reading app from the Play Store, at the cost of more setup.
- Page A 7-inch black-and-white Android e-reader with physical page-turn buttons on an asymmetric grip — BOOX's most reading-focused device, with a speaker and text-to-speech.
- Go 6 A compact, very light 6-inch black-and-white Android e-reader — the plainest BOOX, with no page-turn buttons and no speaker, but the same open Android and Play Store.
- Palma 2 A phone-sized 6.13-inch black-and-white Android e-ink device that fits in a pocket — a full Android reader, not a phone, with a camera, speaker and fingerprint reader.
- Note Air 4 C A 10.3-inch colour Android e-ink note tablet with a magnetic stylus — reading, handwriting and PDF markup on one open device, competing with the Kindle Scribe and reMarkable.
PocketBook
A European brand known for supporting a huge list of file formats out of the box and for audio on e-ink.
- Verse Pro A 6-inch PocketBook with physical buttons, waterproofing, text-to-speech and its own audio playback, and a native format list longer than any Kobo or Kindle.
- Verse PocketBook's entry 6-inch reader — physical page-turn buttons, a warm-adjustable front light, a microSD slot and a very long native format list, without the Verse Pro's audio or waterproofing.
- Era A 7-inch waterproof PocketBook with side page-turn buttons, a built-in speaker plus Bluetooth, text-to-speech and audiobook playback, and PocketBook's usual wide-open format support.
- InkPad 4 A 7.8-inch, 300-ppi waterproof PocketBook with page-turn buttons, a built-in speaker, Bluetooth and text-to-speech — a large screen aimed at PDFs, comics and technical reading.
- InkPad Color 3 A 7.8-inch colour PocketBook with an E Ink Kaleido 3 screen, page-turn buttons, a built-in speaker, Bluetooth and text-to-speech — the large-screen colour reader for comics, magazines and illustrated books.
reMarkable
Paper-tablets built around handwriting and PDF markup rather than ebook reading. A distinct workflow, with an active tweaking community.
- Paper Pro An 11.8-inch colour paper tablet built around handwriting and PDF markup, with a front light for the first time in the reMarkable line.
- Paper Pro Move A 7.3-inch colour paper tablet — the pocket-sized reMarkable, with a front light and the Marker, built for handwriting and markup rather than ebook reading.
- Paper Pure The 10.3-inch monochrome reMarkable that replaced the reMarkable 2 — no front light, a repairable design, and the current-generation Marker, built for handwriting and PDF markup.
- reMarkable 2 The thin 10.3-inch monochrome paper tablet that defined the category — no front light, no store, the Marker, and the largest and most mature community-modification scene of any e-ink device.