itemprop=”caption”> e-book readers like the Kindle are becoming more popular David McNew / Getty Images
D as business with digital books is booming: In 2012, e-books were sold in Germany 12.3 million, as the Bitkom has determined. These are two and a half times more than in 2011 (4.9 million). Nearly eleven percent of Germans regularly access Kindle and Co. take to the printed book. But which e-book reader is best? Stiftung Warentest has tested 13 devices – and found a clear winner
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point victory for Amazon
In recent e-book reader test of 2011 Made Amazon with its Kindle devices not a very good figure and reached only a “satisfactory”. Now the world’s biggest online retailer could reclaim the throne with the Kindle Paperwhite for 129 euros: The winner has loud Warentest a clear structure and is easy to use. Thanks to the high quality displays and an integrated lighting, with which you can read in the dark without an external light sources, he gets a very good score for image quality. It also provides many additional features, long battery life (31 days) and an extensive bookshop. Final note:. 1.6
Hot on the heels is the Tolino Shine (Rating: 1.9), an anti-Kindle made in Germany, which is sold by the Club Bertelsmann, Weltbild including Hugendubel and Thalia. With 185 grams of Tolino Shine fits comfortably in the hand and is not only lighter than most books, but also weighs less than Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite (206 grams). Also very good is the image quality of the six-inch e-ink display. The resolution is 1024 by 758 pixels and is on a par with the Kindle Paperwhite. But in low light it is not quite as convincing as Amazon’s counterpart, and there is less reading settings. With 27 days battery life of Tolino Shine needs (price: 100 euros). Only about once a month to the socket
In the last places were the readers of Trekstor: Both the Pyrus mini (2.9) and the larger Pyrus (3.0) only reached a “satisfactory”. Both readers have no backlight. Want to read in the dark bedroom at night, needed a reading lamp as with a conventional book. A touch screen, there are also not to be served, the e-book reader with narrow control keys on which the symbols are, however, to identify poorly. The text is slightly blurred when Pyrus loud Warentest, the battery lasts only nine days by. Although the machines with 50 euros (Pyrus Mini) and 70 euros (Pyrus) are significantly cheaper than the winner, for a few euros more you get but, for example, Amazon’s Kindle (sixth place) or the Kobo mini (eighth place).
Amazon’s golden cage
Amazon’s readers are the best, this is the conclusion of Stiftung Warentest. However, the Kindle reader have a major limitation: E-books can be purchased, who offers the so-called digital books in Mobi format only at online retailer Amazon. The much more common epub file format that also use public libraries or many competing stores that can not be easily opened. Stiftung Warentest called the Amazon system, therefore, as a “golden cage”.
were also studied four tablets: Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD, Apple iPad Mini, the Kobo Arc and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. The result of the testers: Reading in the dark tablets to e-book readers without backlight are ahead, also the mobile computer can also play movies and games, will play back photos and used as a music player. But in contrast to e-book readers have a much shorter battery life (about ten hours), are significantly heavier and difficult to read in direct sunlight, as the surface reflects very.
Conclusion: If you only occasionally want to read a digital book, is well advised with a lightweight tablet like the iPad Mini. Much should a reader e-book readers do not come around.
The full test can be downloaded free of charge here.
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