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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
I would factor in the ecosystem into the choice of ereaders. At a certain point in your reading life, decide whether you prefer Amazon Kindle Unlimited to Kobo Plus. I use both but I tend to have peculiar tastes (pulp fiction). Which one can you subscribe to, from India? The next deciding factor is the weight of each reader plus look & feel. Again, I use both readers, but Kobo is the preferred choice, just for the epub format, which is easier to decrypt vs. AZW8 (and Amazon's insistence in making it more uncrackable).
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That's an important consideration - I don't think I plan on getting one of the subscription services just yet, though. Kobo Plus is unavailable in India, while Kindle Unlimited is accessible, but a lot of my reading is made up of public domain books that I just sideload (Standard Ebooks is great!). I'm a literature major, and a lot of what I read is related to my core subject, and a lot of that ends up being in the public domain.
For other books, I'm comfortable with buying from another site, removing DRM, and sideloading on to the Kindle as opposed to getting from the Amazon bookstore.
What I most commonly read - sideloads from Standard Ebooks, seem to format beautifully on the Kindle Basic I've used, so I wouldn't expect many problems there. Some of the other ebook files I own that I've tested (from the Kobo store, it lists which books have an EPUB download option) seem to format pretty well aside from one series sourced elsewhere that I had to put more effort into formatting with Calibre.