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Originally Posted by Lori Reeser
I will look at Nexus, but I am not comfortable enough to want to root my pad.
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No need, I was just observing that for the technically minded who do such things, one could do much worse than go with Google. Their flagship devices are marketed as developer devices and are designed to be easily unlocked and rooted.
Moral: Google knows they are freaking massive, and not everyone admires that, and they do a number of things to try to sell themselves as Good. Open-sourcing Android, for instance.
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Apple and Amazon may not be actual monopolies, but they act like it. (Google is more general, not ebooks.) Anyway, although I am willing to look at these products if they have great ereader software, it would have to be very great.
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I would suggest you just look at whether or not you can do what you need with the device you are considering getting.
Rather than buying a device as a means to make a political statement about the company.
Every company tries to be as close to a monopolist as they can get -- it's called doing good business.
I wouldn't trust anyone other than you to have your best interests at heart, and figure out what you need to do to make others' services work for you.
That being said, don't buy a Kindle, not because Amazon has cornered the ebook market, but
because the device is limited (severely) in what you can do.
Other than that, any device with good hardware at a decent price should do well enough, and after that it is just a matter of choosing an ereader app. I cannot advise you there, as I do all my reading on a Kindle.
But any device that supports the Google Play Store should have essentially the same options.