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eReader recommendations? (lemmy.ca)

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I'm looking for an eReader that doesn't lock me into a particular ecosystem or format. Ideally I came just copy files over to it and have them work.

Other than that, small physical dimensions and a backlight would be great!

It's been years since I had one but in the market again and I'm not sure the current state of things. My old one was a Kobo and took files just fine.

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[–] BendyLemmy 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love my Paperwhite. I bought the paperwhite 3 a couple of years ago.

The issue perhaps availability and pricing, itdepends where you live, but e-readers are not really available where I am, I had to order mine through Shopee (and not many options are available - I was lucky that mine was cheap).

Book Nova Air is nice - around 15000 baht
Books Pokes 6" - around 7000 baht
Paperwhite 5 (11th generation) can be had here for 5300 baht

However, I got a paperwhite 3 (about 3-4 years back) for 3500 baht (just a little more expensive than Amazon prices without the heavy shipping costs).

I then faced an issue that some books I wanted were only made available via paperback in the Amazon store... but I live outside the USA.

Amazon is truly evil. I also believe they don't make money out of their paperwhite, but I also heard that the new BASIC kindle is probably better (as after Paperwhite 3, with the flush waterproof screens, the contrast also suffered).

I have Calibre and I use Annie's Archive quite a lot.

I have no problems grabbing epubs and exporting them as azw3 - all my books sit on my HDD and get synchronised to the Kindle via USB cable.