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Amazon Kindle replacement?
For a few years now I have been happily using Amazon's Kindle infrastructure -- I started off reading novels on a laptop and now have a Kindle Paperwhite.
But, recently, the service I get from Amazon has degraded so I wonder whether anybody knows of an alternative to the Kindle hardware and infrastructure?
I'll leave my Kindle be and read what I can from it as long as I can but it would be good to stop paying Amazon. If needs be I will buy new hardware and buy my books again (and again).
There's really not many competitors out there except the nook tablet, kobo as dugan mentioned and maybe the sony ereader. I believe Amazon and Nook have the lion's share of ebboks.
It's best to get a standard tablet and just install the apps like Amazon kindle, Nook, kobo, etc.
Last edited by androidguy555; 07-01-2015 at 05:30 PM.
Like most e-book readers, Kindle will read a wide variety of formats, including EPUB. And there are free software tools such as Calibre which can be used to maintain your device's catalog of book titles, including books from (legal) free sources such as The Gutenberg Project.
These days, I'd say that most of the books that I e-read are public domain digital files from Gutenberg.
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Thanks for the suggestions so far. Perhaps I may be able to get away with buying something like the Sony and finding a way to convert if necessary. My only worry is that I do read a fair bit of fiction not available in DRM free format and not likely to be for some time but, perhaps, if I can find enough on Project Gutenberg to make it worthwhile I could get another reader and experiment. I have used Project Gutenberg a fair bit in the past having read things like Jules Verne but if I'm honest I'm a sucker for modern fiction.
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Ooo, I see Kobo do a waterproof version -- that is very tempting. Does anybody know where Kobo books can be bought from and how it works?
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