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Originally Posted by robintes
What really gets my goat is that you pay for a Kindle book, but unlike print, you dont own it (only a single user license to use) and cant sell it on or even share it legally on your device.
Yet at the same time the kindle book is a similar price to a print copy and even more egregious, Kindle monopolises most of the out-of-copyright popular stuff as well. How did they get away with that? 
sorry for the bile upchuck  |
That actually goes for any commercial ebook, not only a Kindle book. And it's implemented by publishers, not by Amazon or other booksellers.
You can sideload to an eink Kindle just like to an eink Kobo or any other ereader out there. The books must be in the right format (azw3, kfx or mobi), but otherwise nothing stops you from sideloading to Kindles. I have about 3000 ebooks on my Kindle Oasis, all of them sideloaded from Calibre. Kobo readers work better with Calibre and are more customizable, but I don't find the actual reading experience on Kindles and Kobos to be that much different. As I said, I sideload all my ebooks, even those purchased from Amazon, Kobo or Google Play.