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Originally Posted by cellaris
Just out of curiosity. Those of you who have had or still have Kindle e-readers, when you bought them, did you know that there were other brands besides Kindle? Why did you decide to buy a Kindle?
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I started off with a cybook Gen3 ages ago out of nerdy interest. It was really good at it's time. Unfortunately it died on me after about a year or so, but it got me into e-reading! Kindles were still equipped with a keyboard and clunky, ugly things.
I instantly learned to hate the hassles of DRM, found this forum and shortly after, Fictionwise went belly up. Luckily I had learned already to make use of the tools, CLI commands still at that time.
Then moved on to Sony, later pre-ordered the pocketbook 302 (nerdy again), which was a hyped up piece of useless junk.
All this time I had been buying ebooks mostly off Amazon, as at this time it was practically the only source for english literature around here. Downloaded to my PC, stripped off DRM and sideloaded to whatever device I was using at the time. You know the drill.
After the PB302 desaster and as I really liked the one-touch dictionary lookup of mobi ebooks, I thought, I could just get a Kindle anyway, which happened to be a Voyage, which I happily used exclusively for many many years.
I do not read as much these days and if I do, it's mostly on my phone.
I have stayed with Amazon for a long time due to convenience, although I always disliked the monopoly it practically is. After the latest developments I decided it's time to make a move.
Installed Librera reader on my devices and looked for other sources.
Reorganized my DRM management to handle epub books properly, but I was more than amazed to find out, that a lot of books at Thalia.de are
not DRM protected (I cross-checked with amazon: they are all locked). Also recent bestsellers. I still don't quite get it, but I won't complain.
So, yes, I was very aware of other brands and also preferred them for a while.
I still kind of miss my Sony PRS 350 sometimes (I passed it on in the family), but then, the Voyage is still a great ereader. If I get back to using it more again, I might treat it with a new battery.