I use Pocketbook. It opens just about anything - epub, mobi, pdf, pdb, and many more formats. Just get a book anywhere and copy it via USB. Or send it as an email attachment to your special address and it will download automatically. You can even replace the reading app with another relatively easily, if you want.
Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
exanime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So Kobo is the way to go then?
I’m really asking, my daughter is becoming a big book worm and we have missed out on some great sales because she only reads physical books ATM. I want her to give it a try with an e-ready and did not like Amazon for it.
lemming@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
exanime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pocketbook sounds great, I’ll check it out.
Thanks for the info!
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There are Android ereaders. They’re mostly Chinese manufacturers, and I’ve heard more than one doesn’t follow the GPL properly with their modifications to Android, but the end result is freedom to use a variety of sources of books (including Libby and Hoopla from the library, among others).
I haven’t played with parental controls to know if they’re easy to access, but my most current Boox came with the play store installed and it’s pretty easy to learn how to adjust the display settings for different apps with different types of content.
FlyingCrow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kobo has direct access to your public library too through Overdrive. Makes borrowing ebooks super easy!