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Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279 (www.cnbc.com)
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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.

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[–] 130 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (34 children)

I'd recommend everyone to buy a Kobo over these, it's much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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)

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

    It doesn't have WiFi configured at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Some Kindle devices come with a built-in „free“ cellular plan. Maybe it was that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aw man I didn’t even know about that. I guess 4g LTE is Amazon’s “Black Magic”

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I mean, in general it’s pretty neat. When I was 12 or 13 I had a kindle touch with 3G and since I didn’t have a phone or computer I used the kindle touch to read a lot on wikipedia (it didn’t work for everything, I think. Just a handful of selected sites). Also, it generally costs extra when you buy it, just not monthly.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You can change the store on the Kobo to become to your selfhosted calibre library

    https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo-sync-in-calibre-web.html

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And with a kindle you can just email the file to it

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a Kobo user, I want this too :(

    Now I just use the internal browser or use a c to c cable and just use my phone as intermediate

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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