[Rhooo]

Ufffff, I knew that my skepticism re: what model to get was warranted. Today I found out about the "download and transfer via USB" option no longer being available for KU books (for whoever wants to bellyache at me about this, I use an AutoHotKey script that clicks "page forward" at a slow, natural pace in the book on K4PC, from beginning to end, as if I were reading it there, while I'm actually reading the book in KOReader either on my Kobo or my phone, as I'm used to).

Now I'm stuck with a very narrow band of viable products to get. Too old a Kindle and it can't access the store and is de facto blacklisted from KU. Too new a Kindle and books can't be copied off it. So I'm now camping Ebay listings for PW2's, cursing the bidding system to high-heaven. I did manage to find a second-hand Voyage at a very attractive price in my country (less than 80 USD) but the seller confirmed for me that it was blacklisted, so back to the bloody drawing-board it is.

EDIT: Forgot to add that now I also have to cancel the Kindle Kids Edition 2019 I bought. Which was bought on an installment plan. So that's going to be fun.