Comparison
| Model |  jetBook mini |
 jetBook Color |
 Amazon Kindle |
 Amazon Kindle DX |
 Apple iPad |
| Price (with school discount) | $99 (including SD card with 1,000 books) | $379 (including books from 50 States Reading Lists, over 1,000 books from free sources and dual position leather carrying case) | $109 | $379 | $499 |
| Weight | 5.6 oz (158 g) | 23.4 oz (662 g) | 8.5 oz (241 g) | 18.9 oz (536 g) | 1.35 lb (613 g) |
| Built -In Educational Features |
Simplest eBook reader on the market
Bookmarks
Search
6 available Font sizes
Interface in 13 languages
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Load Your Own Content
50-state reading list
Teachers and school administrators resources
Parent support and advice
Fully interactive SAT course
"Overdrive" library access
Wireless access to online textbooks ck12.org and other resources
Speed Reading course
English Explanatory Dictionary narrated by professional linguists
Bi-lingual dictionary (choice of language)
Course of English and foreign language grammar
Speech recognition and speech analysis based phonetic Language Teacher and U-Learn courses that teach any of the 52 available languages and provide great support to ESL students
Pictured dictionaries for 38 languages
Cross translator for 180 languages
Vocabulary Builder
Linguistic Crosswords
Reference materials for Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and Earth Science
Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
Graphing and scientific calculators
Optional GPS for student location monitoring
Wi-Fi connection to Internet and Teacher?s console
Optional 3G module
Text-to-Speech with sentence mark up and more
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Search
Bookmarks and Annotations
Sharing text
Public Notes
Popular Highlights
Built-In Dictionary with Instant Lookup
Wireless Access to Wikipedia
Text-to-Speech
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Search
Personal Document Service via Whispernet
Built-in Dictionary With Instant Lookup
Wireless Access to Wikipedia
Text-to-Speech
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Requires purchasing or downloading individual programs from App Store
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| Display | High Quality 5" reflective Black/White TFT | 9.7" E-Ink Triton Color touch screen. The only Color E-Ink product available on the market | 6" E-Ink Pearl Black/White | 9.7" E-Ink Pearl Black/White | 9.7" LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology |
| Screen Resolution | 640 x 480 pixels | 1600 x1200 pixels | 800 x 600 pixels | 1200 x 824 pixels | 1024 x 768 pixels |
| Power |
4xAAA batteries. Optional rechargeable AAA batteries
Continuous reading time - 90 hours - 10,800 pages
Standby time - 2 years
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Power adapter
miniUSB cable
Continuous reading time 11,000 pages
Standby time - 1 month
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U.S. power adapter
USB 2.0 cable
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U.S. power adapter
USB 2.0 cable
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AC adapter charging via power adapter or USB to computer
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| Storage | SD card up to 32GB (16,000 books) | 4 GB internal, SD card up to 32GB (18,000 books) | 3,500 books | 3,500 books | 16GB + |
| Book Availability | Any free source of books from projectgutenberg.org Google Books and others. Own texts and curriculums |
Any online store (Barnes & Noble, Kobo), free sources (Google Books, ck12.org), own school texts and curriculums. Including sites like: manybooks.net books.google.com blackmask.com tumblebooks.com abacci.com/books ibiblio.org memoware.com |
Amazon.com store | Amazon.com store | Apple store only |
| Format Support | TXT, FB2. Other formats - LIT, MOBI, EPUB, HTML, PRC, RTF, PDB, PDF with Calibre file conversion to TXT and FB2. | Adobe DRM 9.1, ePub, Mobi, PRC, RTF, TXT, PDF, FB2,djvu, JPG, Gif, PNG, BMP | MOBI, PRC, TXT, Amazon's proprietary DRM-restricted format (AZW) | MOBI, PRC, TXT, Amazon's proprietary DRM-restricted format (AZW) | ePub, PDF, AZW, iBooks for books purchased through the iBooks Store. |