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Originally Posted by issybird
And the Paperwhite will work perfectly well out of the box. Buy a book, download, read.
The rest is details and I'm not sure they're relevant to most newbies. Or frankly, to most not-newbies. I think it comes across as so much gobbledygook and is discouraging in general. It shouldn't be, and it really isn't, all that hard. Going outside Kindle, I see the same thing with people who want Kobos. Brand new to eink reading, and they're inundated with patch this, Nickel Reader that, don't forget KOReader. It's not helpful. IMO, of course. Perhaps people could focus more on what the OP says they want, and less on airing their own opinions/grievances/biases.
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The OP asked about sideloading to a Kindle, not about buying and reading Amazon books. And unfortunately sideloading to a Kindle is no longer so simple and easy as it used to be, because if you just do what most people mean by sideloading - convert a few books to mobi/azw3, copy them to your Kindle and keep wifi off for a while, chances are Amazon will delete your books if you do connect to wifi. There are workarounds and that's where it gets complicated.
So yeah, I did focus on what the OP said. And I stand by my conviction that Kindles are no longer good devices for sideloading.