Is buying a Kindle worth it? I'm looking at the Oasis, because I want the ability to disable touch screen and turn pages with the buttons (ya girl has ADHD and sometimes needs to follow along the line of text with a finger to avoid losing track of where I am).
I just love having a physical book in my hands, but I'm think the Kindle would be cheaper, and more convenient for travel, etc.
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I prefer #Kobo because you're not giving Jeff Bezos your money, and you can get .epub books from other sources.
@godspelled @Stumptoemerald @bookstodon
good point - I would like to give Bezos less of my money, given that I'm stuck living somewhere that ordering through Amazon is the only way I'm able to access a lot of things without a 3-4 hour round trip drive 😩
@godspelled @Stumptoemerald @gncif @bookstodon also:
Clara hd (2018) still works fine (afaik the mini, that came out on 2012, works too)
The kindle paperwhite (2018), after an update, is woefully slow on the library browsing.
Plus if you need a particular feature it's possible that koreader has it. And installing koreader on a kobo is pretty straightforward, whilst you'd have to jailbreak a kindle and then hope it's not updating (it breaks the jailbreak)
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