Best eReaders and eBook Players: Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony, PSP, Plastic Logic, etc

We review the best eReaders and eBook players like the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook and Sony Reader to see which top eReader is the best eBook reading solution.

Amazon Kindle 2$259

After taking the world by storm with the original Kindle, Amazon returned to the drawing board for the Kindle 2, a slimmer, sexier version of the original. It offers a 6-inch screen, 2GB of internal memory (to hold about 1,500 nonillustrated books) and most importantly, Whispernet access to pull down books from the sky when you’re out and about. Text-to-speech capabilities even allow it to read books to, if you don’t mind a little robotic intonation. Sadly, it’s missing a touch screen, and many users bemoan the lack of a backlight for evening reading. It also only handles Amazon’s DRM-protected AZW books, free Mobipocket titles, and plain text files, leaving out the popular PDF and EPUB formats.