Mastodawn

So what's the best, most open, e-reader to get?

I'm being pushed out of one increasingly locked-down corporate ebook racket and I don't want to sign up to another one.

So:

- Who's making the best e-readers that'll allow me to buy ebooks from different providers?
- Who's selling eBooks that aren't locked down to a single brand of device?

(I'm in the UK)

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macdude22 3d ago

@TeaKayB not sure it’s the most open but my daughters kobo is nice because it has native libby/overdrive (so the default is it looks at free books from the library).

I have a kindle oasis but ive never bought a book from amazon, calibre and humble bundle 4 life.

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Tommaths (he/him)

@macdude22
I have a Kindle Scribe but they've already started restricting the new features they add to it, so I'm looking at getting out of that ecosystem at last. A lot of people seem happy with the Kobo, but I worry that it's ultimately just another corporate ecosystem.