The eBook Reader Blog

When Kobo first announced the new Kobo Libra, I thought it could be a threat to the Kindle Oasis considering the $80 price difference, but ultimately the price difference makes sense. Starting at $249, the Kindle Oasis is a premium ereader and it feels and looks like one. At $169, the Kobo Libra is more […]

Review Date: October 2019 – Review unit purchase from Amazon Released in September 2019, the Onyx Boox Max3 is Onyx’s latest new device that serves multiple functions: it can be used as an ereader, a digital notepad, and as a secondary E Ink monitor, among other things if you’re creative enough. Like the previous Onyx […]

The Onyx Boox Max3 is Onyx’s latest new device, their first to run Android 9.0, and it comes with some nice upgrades, but is it really worth $300 more than the Onyx Note Pro? Both devices are largely the same from a software standpoint (especially once Onyx updates the Note Pro to Android 9.0). The […]

The Onyx Boox Max3 is the latest device from Onyx. Like earlier Max models it has a non-frontlit 13.3-inch E Ink screen, but they’ve updated the design on this newer model and they upgraded some of the hardware components and updated the software to Android 9.0. One of the main differentiating features on Onyx’s Max […]

Released in 2014, the Kindle Voyage was Amazon’s first “premium” Kindle, with more features and a higher-end feel than the less expensive Kindle Paperwhite that sold along side it. The Kindle Voyage has since been replaced by the Kindle Oasis as Amazon’s premium model. Amazon has released three different versions of the Kindle Oasis since […]

Review Date: August 2019 – Review unit purchased from Amazon Overview The 3rd generation Kindle Oasis was released on July 24th, 2019. Amazon refers to it as a 10th generation Kindle, along with the Kindle Paperwhite 4 and the latest basic Kindle for 2019. The new Kindle Oasis looks exactly the same as the previous […]

Here’s a comparison review between the new Kindle Oasis for 2019 and the latest Kindle Paperwhite 4 that was released in late 2018. Now that Amazon has added a warm frontlight feature to the Kindle Oasis, more people are likely to consider it over the Paperwhite than ever before. The Oasis has better build quality […]

When Kobo released the Kobo Aura One back in 2016, it was the first ebook reader to have a frontlight with adjustable color temperature. There were apps to filter out blue light on LCD screens, but it was the first E Ink ebook reader to offer a color-shifting feature using a frontlight. Since then just […]