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Originally Posted by rcentros
Agreed. Even though I'll probably never buy one, I like that they've upgraded their bottom line reader to 300 dpi (hopefully its front light is good and even).
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If you use Calibre and have any Kindle that can read KF8/azw3 there is no need ever to buy another Kindle, if you get a Kobo.
I have a selection of Kindles because two were bought before I discovered Kobo (not long before discovering here). I got two more for test reasons as we format ebooks and upload epub to Amazon KDP and now there is no way to test what Amazon does with the epub. The preview download is now an epub! Send to Kindle doesn't do the same as the conversion for sale items, which is strange. So we test mobi/KF7, azw3/KF8 and occasionally KFX on actual Kindles. We buy some copies to test if we are using any new style/content that results in different CSS & HTML.
Oddly the PW3 and KK3 don't always do the same things with images in azw3 and the KK3 is "more correct". Next new styles etc will also get tested on a gen 9 Oasis picked up cheap S/H. It seems a bit different to PW3, and not just due to size.
I'd only get another Kindle eink now if they bring out some new format converted from the epub upload that only works on a new model Kindle.
Years ago we uploaded docx and then one day they changed the processing for mobi / kf7. No page breaks.
They said the only solution was to upload an epub. That actually only works for Amazon's sale conversion to mobi/azw/KF7 for page breaks if each new page is also a new internal HTML file in the epub. Fortunately Calibre can do that automatically on converting a single docx to epub. Then we make all other test formats from the epub.