If you’re looking to buy a new ereader or eNote, several PocketBook devices are currently on sale from their official Amazon store.
I was surprised to see the PocketBook InkPad One on sale already considering it was just released in March. The sale price is $335, which is $24 off the regular price. That’s a really good price for an eNote with a 10.3″ E Ink Mobius screen, and it comes with a stylus. Mobius screens are supposed to be more durable than standard E Ink screens, and only a few devices use them.
The PocketBook InkPad Eo is on sale too at $499, which is $80 off the regular price. It has a 10.3″ color E Ink screen (Kaleido 3), and it’s one of PocketBook’s Android-based models, but it uses an older version of Android (11) since it was released in 2024.
If you’re looking for something basic and cheap, the PocketBook Basic Lux 4 is marked down to $110, and the PocketBook Verse Lite is $115. There’s not much of a difference between them, except the former has page buttons and the latter is a newer model with a newer design.
The PocketBook Verse is on sale too for $129. It’s not much different from the models listed above, but the build quality is a bit nicer, and it uses the newer design with the buttons closer to the bottom edge. If you want something with a 300ppi screen, the PocketBook Verse Pro is $20 off at $169. It’s waterproof and it adds support for audiobooks and text-to-speech, but unlike the other models listed above, it lacks a microSD card slot.
If you’d prefer to get a color ereader, the PocketBook Verse Pro Color is on sale for $172. It has a 6″ color E Ink screen. There’s also the PocketBook Era Color with a 7″ color screen for $245. The regular PocketBook Era with a black and white screen is on sale for $225.
One of PocketBook’s more unique models is the InkPad 4 with its 7.8″ E Ink screen. That used to be a fairly common size, but now very few ereaders are available in that size so it makes it kind of unique. The InkPad 4 is marked down to $269, which is $30 off the regular price.
PocketBook is a good alternative for anyone who’s fed up with Kindle and feels abandoned or unrepresented by Kobo. They’re very solid e-readers with interesting features. It’s good news that there are deals in the US, as in Europe it’s very easy to find them at affordable prices (the Verse Pro was half price in my country last month, well below the price of the basic Kindle). Obviously, they have their flaws too, but overall I find them very appealing and easy to use.