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Originally Posted by OgnjenLivada
Therefore, I'm interested in finding a good digital device for reading, not just for myself but also for my son.
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Hello and welcome!
In general, there are three major players in Europe. There's Amazon's Kindle, then there's Kobo and Pocketbook. In general, all three are pretty sideloading friendly, so it just comes up to taste which ecosystem you prefer.
Kindles are subsidized the most, and you can get either a regular Kindle or a Paperwhite quite cheap, especially if you buy the version with ads as screensaver. If you're already invested in the Amazon ecosystem and do your shopping mostly with them, getting a Kindle makes sense.
Kobo does many things just like Kindle, and you have the option to rent digital books from your library as they come with Adobe Digital Editions support. Their pricing is comparable to Kindle.
Pocketbook is usually a bit more expensive than the other ones, however their build quality / screen quality does not justify this (IMHO of course). You also have the option to rent digital books from your library. In addition to supporting the Adobe Digital Editions DRM scheme, Pocketbooks also support the CARE-DRM scheme, in case your library chose to implement this. CARE-DRM is much better than ADE-DRM, as it doesn't come with an activation limit, whereas ADE-DRM only allows up to 5 activations before you have to contact Adobe to request 5 more activations in a pretty convoluted process.
With regard to supported book formats, Pocketbooks support the most formats, however you usually only encounter epubs "in the wild" or Amazons proprietary formats that can only be read on kindles. Though with Calibre, this doesn't really matter as you can convert every book format I know into a format that either reader would be able to read.