Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just chiming in as another kobo guy. I like it’s UI better personally but most importantantly it displays books, holds books, battery lasts forever, and is an eink display - like it’s an ereader, I’m not in the percentage of people who can meaningfully discern between the two.

  Kobo being theoretically repairable and not supporting a trillion dollar inshittification machine was good enough for me to swap.

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  • Kauhuhu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Kobo is a subsidiary of Rakutten, its not amazon but as far as i recall they are no saints either. But the devices are easily disconnected from all their BS, so at least some bonus points there.

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    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not gonna shill for any company, so no worries there, but our governments aren’t breaking up these monopolies so we have to. If my options are a trillion dollar company and a 10 billion I pick the 10 billion.

      I wonder if a company can get to X billion dollars in revenue and not be bad.

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• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Kobo with calibre-web sync. Hands down the best ereader I’ve ever owned.

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  • Kauhuhu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve been too lazy to set it up until now. Ahahah i guess i’ll look into it this afternoon just for the sake of it. Thanks for the kindly reminder.

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    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Check out some of the newer versions of calibre-web like the Automated one. I would like to switch but I’m waiting to be able to factory reset both ereaders or get new ones.

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