Kindle Oasis specs: Display: 7-inch 300 ppi e-ink screen| Battery life: Up to 6 weeks (at 30 minutes per day) | Weight: 6.6 ounces | Storage: 8 GB or 32 GB

The Kindle Oasis is the ultimate tablet for reading since it’s a high-tech device with features dedicated to helping you read. Even though this Kindle hasn’t been updated by Amazon since 2019, it has adjustable warm light for comfortable reading at night and auto-adjusting light for when you’re reading in direct sunlight. Plus, it automatically rotates for page orientation, and it has physical page turn buttons to make flipping pages easier than ever. 

The screen features Amazon’s signature e-ink technology which is much different than a display you’d find on an iPad. Instead, e-ink provides a paper-like display thanks to 300 pixels per inch (ppi) and 25 front light LEDs. 

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It’s also waterproof (how many tablets can say that?), so you can read by the pool without worrying about stray splashes. 

And while it doesn’t have a regular headphone jack, the Kindle Oasis does support Bluetooth connectivity, so you can use wireless headphones and speakers to listen to audiobooks or utilize the screen reader function.

Kindle Scribe specs: Display: 10.2-inch 300 ppi Paperwhite display| Battery life: Up to 12 weeks (at 30 minutes per day) | Weight: 15.3 ounces | Storage: 16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB

The recently announced Kindle Scribe is perhaps the perfect example of part e-reader, part tablet. It has the same functions you’ve come to know and love in a Kindle, like 300 ppi glare-free screen, weeks of battery life, and adjustable warm light. It’s also compatible with Amazon’s Basic or Premium Pen, so you can take handwritten notes or underline important quotations within the book you’re reading. 

Your notes are automatically organized in one place for every book, so you can browse, review, and export them via email.

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The Kindle Scribe also comes with preset templates to help you create notebooks, journals, and lists, and you can can create sticky notes in Microsoft Word and other compatible Word documents. 

The Kindle Scribe comes with the Basic pen, but for the more advanced features like a dedicated eraser and the shortcut button, you’ll need the premium pen, which costs $30 extra. 

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Apple iPad Mini specs: Display: 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display (326 ppi) | Battery life: 10 hours | Weight: 10.4 ounces | Storage: 64GB or 256GB 

Of course, you don’t have to get a dedicated e-reader in order to read on a tablet. The iPad Mini is a powerful tablet with great applications, and it serves as a great reading device thanks to its light weight and sharp screen. 

It has an 8.3-inch liquid retina display with 326 ppi, which is a higher resolution compared to the Kindles. At a result, text look especially sharp on screen, and coupled with Apple’s True Tone technology (which adjusts the color and intensity of your display to match the ambient light), it provides a natural reading experience. 

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Apple’s anti-reflective screen coating also makes it less likely to catch a sunlight glare when you’re reading outside on a sunny day.

With the iPad Mini, you’re also getting Apple’s powerful A15 bionic chip, an ultra-wide 12 MP front camera, support for the 2nd-generation Apple Pencil to take notes, 80% faster graphics than the previous model, Touch ID, and more. 

Samsung Galaxy Tab A8.4 specs: Display: 8.4-inch WUXGA Display TFT (270 ppi) | Battery life: 10 hours | Weight: 10.93 oz | Storage: 32GB

The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8.4 is perhaps lesser known compared to its Tab S counterparts, but this small, lightweight tablet makes the perfect tablet for reading. 

It comes with a 1,920 by 1,200 pixel display with 270 ppi (close to Kindle’s 300 ppi), so images and text look bright and sharp on screen. 

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Even though it runs on the outdated Android 9 Pie operating system, you’ll still get great tablet features like a 5MP front-facing camera, a 8MP rear camera with autofocus, a long-lasting battery, and the ability to expand your storage to up to 512GB with a microSD card (that’s a lot of books!). 

Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Tablet specs: Display: 8-inch HD display, 1280 x 800 (189 ppi) | Battery life: Up to 13 hours | Weight: 1.14 pounds | Storage: 32GB or 64GB

For a kid-friendly reading tablet, Amazon’s new Fire HD 8 Kids tablet is worth checking out. Not only does it have a kid-proof case built to withstand use by children aged 3 to 7 years old, but it also comes with a free one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+. 

The subscription gets you access to thousands of kid-friendly ad-free books, as well as movies, games, and other educational content your child will love. 

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Parents can control screen time and set educational goals for their children using parental controls built into the tablet to make sure your kid is actually reading or learning something while using it. 

Plus, it has 2 MP front and rear-facing cameras with 720p HD video recording with the ability to add themed filters and fun fframes to photos. 

Review: I bought this Amazon kids tablet instead of an iPad and wasn’t sorry