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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you are in the US, ... cheap Kindle...
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Not since 1980s!
I've mostly lived in Ireland and live in Ireland now.
Older Kindles need an account or you can't create collections.
Older Kindles like DXG need an account if firmware at current version.
Newer Kindles & Kobos can't be used AT ALL, without signing in first to Amazon or Kobo. There ought to be a law against that, maybe there is in the EU.
Thanks for making effort for suggestions.
I'll see can a Kindle account with no credit card be made. I have done it twice for Kobo readers, but only if account is created on the reader, not possible on the website.
Newer versions of Android seem to need a Google account, or at least a gmail account, but not yet a credit card.
The Android TV is actually abusive (and illegal in EU). Almost every "smart" TV here has it. You can't even tune without agreeing Google T&C and all use info (inc HDMI connected player titles) is sent to Google.
We seem to have already reached a privacy apocalypse on gadgets. Kindles & Adobe ePubs try to report all your reading activity. It's on by default on Kobo. So I only use USB transfer, never WiFi or 3G, those disabled. Kindle App on phone tries to contact Amazon even when not "started" and data is disabled, thus error messages appear.
So at least paper books and USB only gadgets are still private.