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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Well the reason that I use a kindle not a tablet is I do not want all the distractions of a tablet. I know myself well enough to know that if I used a tablet I would go off web browsing and reading email. My kindle keeps me centered on the books.
The reason I use kindles is because amazon's marketing strategy is to compete by under cutting the competition's prices and that's a behavior that I want to encourage. Amazon also has the Kindle Unlimited program where I typically read $150 worth of books per month for $10.
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So why not have an ePub capable reader as Google does (in most cases) have the same price as Amazon. To me, I find the hardware and software on my H2O better than that on a Kindle. For one thing, I have read many more posts on the net about issues with the front light of Kindles and not nearly as many for Kobos. You can sometimes get good prices at Kobo if what you want is cuponable and you have a discount code. Again, there is Google Play which price wise is comparable to Amazon. Also, most KF8 eBooks do start off life as an ePub eBook. So buying from Amazon, stripping the DRM, and code shifting back ino an ePub is trivial. So with an ePub Reader, you get to still buy from Amazon, you can buy from other shops as well. And if you use Overdrive, you can tak advantage of eBooks that do not have a Kindle format and do have only an ePub format.