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Originally Posted by silvercity
Edit: I've been doing some online reading and noticed that kobo supports epub and kindle does not. True?
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True. Although, with Calibre, converting ePub to Amazon's .mobi (AZW3) is extremely simple.
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Originally Posted by silvercity
I will not make many online purchases for her since I have an existing library that I downloaded myself from various sites. I just need to make sure that I can easily load these on whatever reader I buy (thinking kobo). Can this be done with calibre? I am noticing that none of their ebooks have SD cards.
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A modern reader with an SD card slot is not going to be readily available. You might want to look at a used Tolino Shine (original one). It still has an SD card slot, has a good, front-lit (212ppi) screen, works well with ePubs, and is made by Netronix (the same folks who make the Kobos). And they can be bought on eBay cheaply.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Tolino-Shine...NPW2:rk:3:pf:0
I've got a Tolino Page (basically the same except with a lower resolution screen, no front-light and no SD Card slot) that I like a lot. Nice size and fairly light, about 180 grams.
(These also have Adobe ADE "built-in," so, if you're Mom ever does get WiFi or goes somewhere where there is WiFi, you can borrow books from the library directly from the device -- though using the built-in web browser for this is painfully slow.)
If nothing more, it would be a good "trial" eReader.