The company is refreshing its entire e-reader lineup, launching four new Kindle devices.

I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

  • Everett@reddthat.comEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I’d recommend everyone to buy a Kobu over these, its much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Where’s the one with unlimited internet connectivity for the lifetime of the device…I’m not seeing it.

      My wife has the oasis that has cellular connectivity so she can read newspapers, rss feeds, etc. But I don’t see a Kobu with that feature.

      • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        19 days ago

        I don’t think Kobo has that option. I just toggle on my wifi hotspot on my phone though and that works just fine.

    • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Amazon also bought up a comic distributor a while back which may make this easier to get the content I want.

      I’ve never had issues emailing PDFs and epubs to my kindle address to read them.

      I’ll need to check out kobu though, they have a color one that’s $100 cheaper.

      • ben_dover@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        19 days ago

        interesting, my mum’s kindle used to regularly wipe all ebooks i’ve sideloaded with calibre, only keeping it in airplane mode helped so far

    • firepenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Thanks for this. Was in the market for an e-reader and didn’t really feel like jumping through Amazon bullshit

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Biggest draw to Kindle for me is whispersync. Having my progress synchronized between Audible and Kindle is fantastic.

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.

      I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I’ve been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it’s done it’s just drag n drop.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        19 days ago

        Until it decides to delete every single side loaded book you have on there, which they like to do from time to time. The only way to completely avoid it is to load all your content via email, which unfortunately only supports limited formats.

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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          19 days ago

          Well, good luck to Amazon trying to wipe my kindle remotely with black magic then.

          It doesn’t have WiFi configured at all.

          • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            19 days ago

            When it happened to me I was staying with a family member whose house I’d never been to before, so I didn’t have their wifi. I couldn’t believe it.

        • bossjack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          19 days ago

          The type of person to rock Calibre would probably have airplane mode on constantly. Mine’s been that way and I still have epubs sideloaded on my Kindle from when I first got mine all those years ago.

          • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            18 days ago

            Second this. Airplane mode is on and books are sideloaded. However, if it hadn’t been a present, I‘d probably have gotten a Tolino (German/European e-reader brand that is identical with kobo) because they support epub directly (and yes I know the Kindle technically does that, too, now but wordwise n stuff only works if you convert them to kfx)

    • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I also love my Kobo. I’ve heard you can unlock it and flash a community supported OS, which might be another true benefit over Kindle depending on your needs.

    • ALilOff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I recommend Boox, I don’t know about their dedicated e-reader, but I have the Onyx Boox Air C it’s a little pricier, but it’s an E-Ink tablet so I take all my notes there. (The C versions are color)

      As someone who takes a lot of notes during their work, I can’t recommend enough. Gone are the days I’ve bought paper notebooks.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Did a quick google and the first review that came up shows that’s not true at all, it’s the exact same process on a kindle as it is a Kobo, though you and this review are both really over-selling it:

      Getting ebooks from other stores onto the device is also a hassle. You have to plug the e-reader into your computer and drag and drop files (though Calibre, the ebook management app, does make it a scootch easier). But that problem isn’t unique to Kobo. Amazon and Barnes & Noble also insist you sideload books.

      The real reason seems to be that the Kobo is cheaper, honestly, don’t see why the kindle is that much more