In My recent exploration Between the Kindle Paper white 3 & the Kobo Glo HD ...what I understand they are the same. Kindle does use the Mobi & AZW3 Formats... while Kobo uses the ePub. Both web sites have Free ebooks. I suggested the Kobo cause your teach has epubs he was going to give/lend you... I felt that being the case best you go with the ereader you could read the books on... Course I assuming they are edu books you need for class. Doesn't mean you have to get them illegal. A neighbor tells me that like Kindle Kobo has a Lending program. So your Teacher Can Lend the ebooks to you. Talk to your teacher I am sure he can help you with all this.
Kobo Forum:
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