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Originally Posted by mobama
If I had to buy it, I would root the Kindle and slap my preferred app on it the first thing. Same as with Kobo. A fresh Kindle does not do epubs in the first place, as far as I know. This has been a decisive factor for me to avoid Kindles altogether. Thus far they have not produced anything hardware-wise and price-wise that would make me consider buying a Kindle. I have no partiality to Kindles.
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Good luck with "rooting" a Kindle or Kobo eInk ereader. For one thing, rooting is generally used when referring to Android devices. For the Linux based Kindle eInk ereaders, the preferred term seems to be jailbreak. For Kobo's, rooting/jailbreaking is not necessary. As for slapping your preferred app on it? That's a very limited selection for either platform given that neither runs Android. I won't get into the issue that if you purchase a Kindle with firmware 5.9.2 or later you are out of luck with jailbreaking at this time though the jailbreak does seem to survive an update to 5.9.2/5.9.4 for most people.
For your comments about reviews, if I see a comparison review where the intent of the reviewer is not to display each device at it's best, I have grave doubts about the reviewer. The worst example I saw was a comparison of a Kobo Aura One (KA1) and a Kindle Oasis v1 (KO1). Much like the review video you linked, he tried to make the two devices display the same text on screen, whinged about the KA1 being bigger than the KO1 -- perhaps a 6" screen compared to a 7.8" screen might have something to do with that? -- and then whinged about the weight of the KA1 compared to the KO1 without it's battery/cover. Not to mention the funniest part where he complained about the font choice on the KA1 since his favourite Amazon fonts were not present.