PocketBook Touch Lux 5

Unlike its two competitors in our review, the PocketBook Touch Lux 5 can not only be operated via its touch-sensitive screen, but also offers buttons to browse through the books. The 6-inch screen has a good 221-ppi resolution and displays 16 greyscales. Its illumination can be changed both in brightness and colour temperature. The e-reader is not waterproof. ...

The Pocketbook Touch Lux 5 offers access to more than 1 million e-books of different genres. It offers fast page-turning times, can be connected to the WLAN and can also be fed with content via SD card.

Both the Pocketbook Touch Lux 5 and its brother Color with colour display are rock-solid eBook readers with the right features and price. The colour display of the Color does not reach the quality of a tablet, but the innovative display is great for showing book illustrations or photos...

A narrow double victory for Pocketbook: In both the 6-inch and the 7-inch class, the devices from Switzerland took the test victory by a razor-thin margin. In the low-priced readers, Amazon's Kindle Basic and the Tolino Page 2 were tied. The slightly lower price ultimately helped the Amazon device to win the price-performance category...

Consistent further development of the box office hit.