Top 5 Best Ebooks 2022 | Articles | Gadgets, gifts and accessories

An e‑book is a com­pact library that is always with you. Even the 8 GB mod­el (of which about 6.5 GB is ded­i­cat­ed to files) holds about 12,000 FB2 books. Impres­sive, right? This is an indis­pens­able device for read­ing lovers, school­child­ren, stu­dents. But what is the best e‑book to buy in 2022? We have com­piled a selec­tion of books that, in our opin­ion, are the most inter­est­ing.

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What was taken into account in the rating

• rel­e­vance of the mod­els. The books list­ed in the top are 2020–2021 edi­tions. The mod­el you like will not be out­dat­ed.
• Sup­port­ed file types. FB2 and EPUB read almost all books. But DOC, PDF and TXT are sup­port­ed less fre­quent­ly. But these for­mats are often need­ed for work.
• Price.
• Reviews of the best e‑books on the Inter­net. This is a sub­jec­tive para­me­ter that was not includ­ed in the final score table.
• Addi­tion­al fea­tures (for exam­ple, voice act­ing of the text).

We have already talked in detail about how to choose an e‑book for your­self or as a gift. Now let’s move on to the top best e‑books of 2022.

PocketBook 606

The top best e‑books of 2022 are opened by a bud­get mod­el for 7,980 rubles. This is a basic prod­uct, equipped with a min­i­mum of func­tions. The book has the lat­est gen­er­a­tion screen (E‑Ink Car­ta):

• the screen does not fade or glare, the text is clear­ly vis­i­ble, even if you read it on the street, under the sun;
• the eyes do not get tired of the screen, it is suit­able for long read­ing, unlike smart­phones;
• E‑Ink is eco­nom­i­cal: if you work with a book 2–3 hours a day, you will have to charge it about once a month.

Com­pact and light­weight, easy to fit even in a small bag. Pho­to: mnmag.ru

Pecu­liar­i­ties:

• non-touch dis­play. But­ton con­trol is eas­i­er for chil­dren and the elder­ly. The child will not acci­den­tal­ly click on the screen and will not delete any­thing impor­tant, will not knock down the set­tings — for exam­ple, the font size;
• sup­ports many for­mats: PDF, DOCX, DOC, EPUB, TXT, FB2, RTF, CHM, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF;
• there are addi­tion­al func­tions: cal­cu­la­tor, cal­en­dar, dic­tio­nary with the abil­i­ty to trans­late the select­ed word. Con­ve­nient when learn­ing for­eign lan­guages ​​and work­ing with a text­book.

PocketBook 628

One of the best mid-range Pock­et­Book e‑books, com­bin­ing nice design and func­tion­al­i­ty. The price at the time of writ­ing is 11,140 rubles.

The book is equipped with an E‑Ink Car­ta screen. You can read both in the dark and in bright light thanks to the soft back­light.

SMART­light tech­nol­o­gy auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjusts the bright­ness and col­or tem­per­a­ture (tint) of the screen depend­ing on the time of day. You can use the default set­tings or cre­ate your own.

Minia­ture book with a nice design. Pho­to: mnmag.ru

A diag­o­nal of 6 inch­es is enough for com­fort­able work with files. You can con­trol the book through the touch screen or using the keys.

Pecu­liar­i­ties:

• sup­ports not only com­mon for­mats (PDF, DOCX, DOC, PRC, EPUB, TXT, RTF, CHM, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF). The book will open even comics: CBR and CBZ;
• you can con­nect to the Inter­net via Wi-Fi;
• you can store the nec­es­sary mate­ri­als through the Pock­et­Book Cloud ser­vice. The files will be in the cloud stor­age, and you can access them not only from the book, but also from anoth­er device (for exam­ple, a smart­phone). There is an app for Android and iOS.

E‑book PocketBook 633

A com­pact device (108x161 mm) with 16 GB of built-in mem­o­ry (more than 20 thou­sand books in FB2 for­mat will fit) and a col­or screen for 14,980 rubles. The gad­get is not only minia­ture, but also light (160 g). Mono­chrome coun­ter­parts are usu­al­ly 20–30 g heav­ier and larg­er in size. At the same time, the design­ers left the screen at 6 inch­es.

The body is made of plas­tic. It is mat­te, vel­vety, pleas­ant to the touch. Fin­ger­prints do not remain on the sur­face.

As in many mod­ern read­ers, there is an E‑Ink Car­ta screen. In this case, it is coat­ed with a Col­or Fil­ter Array. It retains the gen­tle effect on the eyes that E‑Ink tech­nol­o­gy pro­vides. At the same time, the image is col­ored, but not bright — it can be com­pared with news­pa­per print­ing.

Pock­et­Book 633 is not only a read­er with a col­or screen, but also an MP3 play­er. Pho­to: apple-iphone.net.ru

Pecu­liar­i­ties:

• this is the first mod­el in Rus­sia, which is equipped with a col­or screen (touch, but there are but­tons);
• there is Wi-Fi (you can access the Inter­net through the installed brows­er, use Pock­et­Book Cloud);
• there is a built-in MP3 play­er (you can lis­ten to audio books and music). Avail­able for­mats: MP3, OGG, M4A, M4B, OGG, OGG.ZIP, MP3, MP3.ZIP. Head­phones can be con­nect­ed via Blue­tooth or 3.5mm jack;
• the desired sec­tion of the text can be high­light­ed with a “mark­er” (there are 4 col­ors, you can adjust the line thick­ness);
• there is a sound func­tion (Text-to-Speech, TTS). A vir­tu­al announc­er (there are 2 voice options) will read the desired text.

PocketBook 970

A black and white book of impres­sive size (236×173 mm) for 19,990 rubles. The main advan­tage of this mod­el is the screen. It is large (9.7 inch­es), high res­o­lu­tion (1200×825). And, of course, this is the lat­est gen­er­a­tion E‑Ink screen (gen­tle for the eyes).

The device can be used to read mag­a­zines, news­pa­pers, comics, pro­fes­sion­al lit­er­a­ture — in a word, for any non-stan­dard files with com­plex lay­out.

Pock­et­Book 970 looks impres­sive against the back­drop of a minia­ture ana­logue. Pho­to: mnmag.ru

The design of the book is min­i­mal­is­tic — for those who want to empha­size their refined taste. There are no but­tons, touch con­trol is avail­able. The case is black, and there is a thin steel frame around the screen. It looks nice and pro­vides extra rigid­i­ty to the hull.

Pecu­liar­i­ties:

• opens almost any for­mat (FB2.ZIP, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, DOCX, DOC, PRC, DjVu, EPUB, TXT, ASCM, FB2, PDF, RTF, CHM, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and even com­ic CBR, CBZ ). You do not need to install spe­cial pro­grams for con­vert­ing;
• addi­tion­al func­tions. You can trans­late the select­ed word through the built-in dic­tio­nary, there is a brows­er and Wi-Fi. Files are syn­chro­nized via Drop­box (no need to con­nect the book to the com­put­er);
• The Pock­et­Book Cloud cloud ser­vice and the Pock­et­Book Read­er appli­ca­tion con­nect the book and the smart­phone. For exam­ple, you start read­ing mate­r­i­al on a book, and then from the same place you read from your smart­phone. The app is avail­able on iOS and Android.

PocketBook 740 Color

This e‑book com­pletes our rank­ing of the best. You can buy it now for 21,980 rubles. The read­er is very styl­ish, with­out bulky but­tons and unnec­es­sary details.

Made of mat­te plas­tic that is resis­tant to fin­ger­prints and scratch­es. The size of the device itself is 195 × 136.5 mm. At the same time, the screen is large — 7.8 inch­es, with a res­o­lu­tion of 1872 × 1404.

The image looks some­thing like a qual­i­ty print on newsprint. Pho­to: mnmag.ru

Pecu­liar­i­ties:

• col­or screen suit­able for text­books, mag­a­zines, comics, pre­sen­ta­tions. Even small and thin fonts are clear­ly dis­played;
• built-in MP3 play­er. You can lis­ten to music both in head­phones and through speak­ers. You can con­nect via Blue­tooth or using a wire;
• there is a sound func­tion (Text-to-Speech, TTS). With the click of just one but­ton, you can turn plain text into an audio­book. And the “built-in” speak­er will read it;
• sup­ports more than 20 file for­mats: FB2.ZIP, EPUB (DRM), PDF, MOBI, DOCX, DOC, PRC, DjVu, EPUB, CBR, CBZ, TXT, ASCM, FB2, PDF (DRM), RTF, CHM, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HTML, HTM;
• addi­tion­al fea­tures. Trans­la­tor — the select­ed word trans­lates through the built-in dic­tio­nary (oth­er lan­guages ​​can be down­loaded). There is Pock­et­Book Cloud (to syn­chro­nize the library with iOS and Android devices) and Wi-Fi.

Outcome

Books from our rat­ing received the fol­low­ing rat­ings on a five-point scale:

Pock­et­Book 606 is one of the best bud­get e‑readers. Suit­able for a stu­dent, an elder­ly per­son. It is sim­ply con­trolled by but­tons, does not dam­age eye­sight, reads many files.

Pock­et­Book 628 is for con­nois­seurs of beau­ti­ful design and com­ic book lovers. SMART­light tech­nol­o­gy pro­tects your eye­sight, and Pock­et­Book Cloud allows you to access the files you need from any device.

Pock­et­Book 633 — for those who have long want­ed a read­er with a col­or screen. There is a text voice func­tion, there is access to Pock­et­Book Cloud. Small and light.

Pock­et­Book 970 — if you are look­ing for a large black and white screen for read­ing files with a non-stan­dard lay­out. Min­i­mal­is­tic design, opens more than 20 file types, Pock­et­Book Cloud is avail­able.

Pock­et­Book 740 Col­or is a uni­ver­sal sol­dier with a col­or screen. Opens more than 20 file for­mats, has Pock­et­Book Cloud, MP3 play­er, voice-over func­tion, trans­la­tor, brows­er, stan­dard games (sudoku, chess).