They're reading a book! I wish I was more like them." Cheaper for library usersĪnd there's another reason e-book readers make you look smart: they are way cheaper than printed books.Īs we usually do when reviewing an e-reader, we compared the cost of a selection of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books on the Amazon Kindle store, the Kobo store and a real-world bookstore, Dymocks. People will look at you on your Nia and think, "Oh, how strange, that person isn't looking mindlessly at Instagram. Unlike the pricier Kobo readers, it's not waterproof.)īut, more importantly, if you're using an e-reader with an e-ink display, you won't be mistaken for every other tool out there, staring at your Instagram feed all day. (I'd hesitate to use the Nia on the beach or by the pool, however.
In terms of visible surface area – the thing that actually matters – the screen on the Kobo is 23 per cent bigger than the screen on the iPhone 11.)ĭespite e-reader displays being less crisp than phone displays, there are very good reasons to want them on something you plan to read books on.įor starters, e-readers are much easier to look at for long periods than phones, and vastly easier to read in bright daylight, which is where you often want to read a book. Thus the numbers favour the longer, skinnier iPhone over the shorter, wider Kobo. Screen-size measurements are a function of the aspect ratio of the screen and give you higher numbers the longer and skinnier a screen is. The iPhone 11 has a 6.1-inch screen, but it's actually quite a bit smaller than the 6.0-inch screen on a Kobo or a Kindle. (Just a note on the screen sizes here, which can be misleading. More importantly, if you're using an e-reader, you won't be mistaken for every other tool out there, staring at your Instagram feed all day. The e-ink display on the Kobo Nia is a good deal sharper than that on the Kindle (it has 212 pixels per inch, versus a mere 167ppi for the Kindle), but you'll nevertheless find it looks a good deal less crisp than your phone display, which is likely to be both sharper (an iPhone 11 has a 6.1-inch screen with a 326ppi resolution, for instance) and much higher contrast than an e-ink display, with whiter whites and blacker blacks.
Like the Kindle, it's a six-inch e-reading device that uses an e-ink display, rather than the LCD or OLED display you'll find on a phone or tablet. So while we wait for that important piece of information to drift back into my mind, let me tell you a thing or two about the Nia, and how it stacks up against a Kindle. All I remember is, it may affect your choice between a Nia, which is $150, and an entry-level Amazon Kindle, the main competitor to the Nia, which is $139. Whatever it was, let's hope it comes back to me by the end of the review.
Ooh! Ooh! There's something important I need to tell you about the Kobo Nia, the new e-book reading device for readers on a budget.
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