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I've ordered from Kobo here in Ireland more than once (they shipped from Netherlands). Also used Amazon DE and Amazon UK. Used Argos once because cheaper and local.

Kobo do seem very slow. Netherlands and Ireland are both in EU, so no customs. I get stuff from Germany & Netherlands faster than from UK now, or in some cases UK suppliers can ship to USA, but have not figured out how to do EU since Brexit. Of course there is almost no customs delay with Amazon UK. All the big international corps know how to do paperwork, it's small UK companies and UK Supermarkets that can't figure it (M&S closed Paris store!). No empty shelves in Spar or Lidl in N.I (UK) or Ireland the way there was with M&S, Sainsburys (who are in N.I.) or Tesco. But Tesco was least bad.

Sainsburys supermarkets bought Argos and when they decided to move them instore, they simply closed the Irish Argos, because unlike UK Tesco and UK M&S they have no stores here. We also have (Euro) Spar (just called Spar in UK), Aldi and Lidl. Oddly Tesco sold obsolete Kindles for a while. Aldi maybe sold an LCD ereader once.