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Originally Posted by Hmcaun
For a variety of reasons - or, perhaps, to have things kept simple. I'm still actually thinking whether something like calibre conversion tools could really replace the support of EPUB and DRMed files on a device like Kindle. Certainly, I could still not borrow books from a library, and would suffer from some few other specific limitations.
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calibre's conversion produces flawlessly readable results (or at least, as good as the EPUB was, because it can't fix what isn't there
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DRMed purchases are not a problem, cf. Apprentice Alf.
Yes, you miss out on library books (I assume from your response that you are not in the US), and converting requires an additional step done on a computer which IMHO is not really a burden.
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Above everything and for now, however, is having good dictionaries support, and Amazon still seems to win this comparison with every other manufacturer. Apparently, PocketBook has good ones on BookLand, but I can't still find a monolingual Italian for one of its devices!
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This is exactly why my advice is to just deal with the need to manage/convert your books on the computer, and go with the Kindle. And you did say it (dictionaries) is also more important than library ebooks...
EPUB support is a mere convenience, and not a significant one in my admittedly American OverDrive<->Kindle-supporting worldview.