Best iPads for reading ebooks

Top pick: the 11-inch iPad (A16). It's the sensible reading tablet — a light, familiar 11-inch screen, plenty of storage for a library, and the cheapest way into a current iPad, so you can spend the difference on books.

Who the others suit:

• iPad Air 11-inch (M4) — a sharper, brighter screen and faster chip if you read a lot of comics, PDFs and magazines, or want it to last years.
• iPad Air M3 — the previous Air, still excellent for reading, and often the better value of the two Airs.
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) — only if you want the biggest page and the best display; it's heavy to hold for long sessions.
• iPad mini — the one to hold one-handed on a commute or in bed.

Any of them runs Apple Books, Kindle and Kobo apps; for pure text, screen size and weight matter more than power.