[leebase]

Mix and matching ecosystems does have it's benefits.

I left my iPad mini at my daughter's house this weekend. I'll be without it for a week, minimum.

I do have several Kindle Fire class tablets. One of them is the Walmart Onn table I paid something like $60 for. 8" and mostly unadulterated Google Android (they did add a couple Walmart apps and a Walmart button).

I like this little tablet for reading, Netflix and such. Particularly for the price.

First thing I did was update the OS - as I hadn't used it in awhile. No go. Even the latest security update is over 2 years old. I'm spoiled to be in the Apple ecosystem where you get iOS updates and security patches for many years.

I'm certainly not going to do any banking or financial transactions on this device.

It just so happened that the book I was reading was via the FBReader app which has iOS and Android versions and uses Google Drive for syncing. No problem picking up from where I left off with my book.

It's another reason I don't buy books from the iBookstore. I'm quite happy with Amazon for ebooks. The other reason is that iBooks haven't had their DRM cracked (that I know of). I will "liberate" my paid-for Kindle books and then read them in any app of my choosing. As well as have them backed up.

I use the Calibre software for my ebook management. It's OSS. There are separate plugins you can find on the interwebs that handle the DRM liberation.

I also subscribe to Kindle unlimited. I like that they now have books/audiobooks that sync. I can be reading an ebook, then go for a walk and continue "reading" from Audible. It's not a "kindle unlimited" only feature. I have actually bought both an ebook and the audible version of the same book to be able to do this.

Not all ebooks that have audible versions have this ability.

As such, though, I've gotten in the habbit of just reading my kindle ebooks via the kindle app. It's not my favorite reading app, but it does just fine.