Having your cake and eating it too isn’t on the menu
Kindles were loss leaders to get you in their ecosystem, just like all the shitty cheap tablets they sold.
The from four years ago part is real, but honestly, 4 year old devices read books about as well as current devices as long as you’re not trying to go all fancy.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Kobo e-readers are 1-to-1 alternatives that allow you to easily transfer epubs or PDFs to it with a USB cable.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
As far as I can tell, Kobos are bootloader locked now old.reddit.com/…/kobo_is_now_using_secure_boot_on…
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
You can still transfer epubs and most books on the kobo store are sold without DRM (publisher choice)
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s a far cry from
mentioned in the first comment
tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.
Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.