I’m a lover of physical books but I’m looking to get an e-reader as well, for those books that are hard to find physical copies of, or are just very expensive.

I’ve ruled out Onyx, because I try to avoid Chinese tech as it’s usually poorly made. But I’m not sure whether Kindle or Kobo is best. Is being tied to Amazon’s ecosystem too restricting? Are the Kobo e-readers compatible with everything you need? Which ones have the best screens, ideally how a physical book would look?

So many questions, but hopefully some of you can help. 😁

  • tjhart85@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    FYI Kindles now support ePub natively and it’s fixed a lot of the random issues that used to occur with the spacing and such with no need to convert into AZW3 first (they recently dropped support for AZW … at the same time they added ePub). It helps that I get everything I can in ePub format or convert to it when I can’t.

    All in all though, as long as we’re all happy with our workarounds, it’s all good :-)

    I kinda like that mine costs Amazon fractions of a penny in compute time though!