Buying advice

Buying guides

Short paths through a loud shelf. Start here if you do not want to memorize panel names.

8 min

Your first e-reader

Kindle or Kobo, 6 or 7 inches, waterproof or not. A short path through a loud shelf.

9 min

Color or black and white

Kaleido 3, Gallery 3, Spectra 6, and why most novels still want Carta.

10 min

Paper tablets that replace a pad

reMarkable, Supernote, Kindle Scribe, Boox. Handwriting is the product. Apps are the distraction.

8 min

Phones with paper faces

Hisense, Bigme, Light, Minimal. Grayscale as a daily driver is a practice, not a spec.

7 min

E-paper monitors for people who type

Dasung and Boox, 13 and 25 inches. Ghosting is a feature you learn or a reason you return it.