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Originally Posted by tomsem
That’s pretty much where I am at: convenience.
Kindle eReaders are more than ‘good enough’ for me, but I also like to read on my iPad mini, and if I had to pick just one device, that would be it.
Whatever hardware/software/openness advantages Kobo eReaders offer (as detailed in this thread and elsewhere) would necessarily inconvenience me to take advantage of, and in the end, none of these seem compelling enough for me to actually get one.
I have made a start on de-DRM ing my several thousand Kindle books, but at the rate I’m going, I will never finish. I’ve convinced myself that I can (someday) finish a script to automate the process, and thus save many hours of effort, but my resolve to do so is weak.
The path of least resistance (and having more time to read instead of managing a collection of books I will read only a fraction of) is to stick with Kindles, which I’m doing: getting the new Paperwhite next month.
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As I started deDRM-ing since the first ebook I bought (from Amazon) and using Calibre for library management when I still had a few hundred ebooks (also mostly from Amazon then), that has never been a block for me. In fact, I would never have bought an ereader or an ebook if it had not been possible to de-DRM. Still, I too used only Kindles for many years. They were good enough for me and Kobo readers were more boring back then than Kindles. I bought my first non-Kindle reader as recently as 2019. Of course I didn't have to de-DRM my whole library of thousands of books, because they all were already de-DRMed (I do that immediately after buying with every book I buy, a habit deeply ingrained by now).