Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books

• lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve tried the Kobo store (sold my Kindle and got a Libra 2 Color), but the selection is a bit lacking.

  Some books just don’t exist there, which means I can’t just click and buy the next one from the Kobo UI.

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  • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can buy those books (if possible) from the publisher directly and load them onto your Kobo via a computer.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep, but it’s not something I can do with one click on the sofa, which was my original point

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      • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        @lepinkainen @penquin Kobo has a basic browser so you probably could. I downloaded a few copyright-free books from standardebooks.org directly onto my Kobo the other day.

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    • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @penquin @lepinkainen Kobo also comes preloaded with overdrive so you can get books from the library as well. The wait can be quite long though - but if you have enough on hold that doesn't really matter too much

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      • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Does overdrive have only audio books or regular books, too?

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a kobo sage and it’s the same, except that kobo runs on Linux and they don’t lock their system.

  It runs on Android which runs on a Linux kernel. And Android is a tad bit too heavy for the kind of hardware the vendors tend to give e-readers, if you do anything outside the book-management-and-reader app. It’s more open than Kindle, sure (i could even flash Lineagos on my Leaf, since the stock ROM had weird translation and apps), but if you just want an e-reader and maybe Nextcloud sync, i’d recommend PocketBook over everything else.

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  • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve searched everywhere and nowhere does anyone mention that kobo runs android. It runs an actual Linux based OS, not android. I know android uses the Linux kernel but that is not the same as an actual Linux OS. It doesn’t matter anyway, their shit is wide open and you can do whatever the hell you want to you kobo

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok, “Android” is a certificate and requires, among others, Google Play Services and Store. Kobo doesn’t have that, so my that’s the issue. But it’s a AOSP-based vendor ROM, same as Kindle’s, so my point with performance still stands and battery is bad too. At least compared to PocketBook’s, which run plain Linux and last a month.

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      • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I just checked them out and they have really low PPI on the one I want, the inkpad lite. It’s 150 PPI. That’s too low and would drive me insane.

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