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Hi,

My Kindle won't boot anymore and keeps getting stuck in boot screen, so I thought this might be a good time to get away from Amazon, even though that device was great.

So, what non-kindle readers would you recommend?

It should have color and background light and it shouldn't be huge so I can keep it in the back pocket.

And, since I don't have any experience outside the Amazon ecosystem: how is the experience of buying and transferring books to non Kindle readers?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use Calibre Web for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So you download the books from calibre-web using the browser on your own kobo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No, I just “sync” my kobo to my home network with the Calibre Web instance running and it syncs the library automatically.

In order to do that you have to edit the Kobo device configs and replace the Kobo store address with the local address of your Calibre web server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would set it up like this. Everything you have in Calibre Web, or only on a shared shelf, will show up in your Kobo reader book section and is ready to download.

No plugins or extra software, it just works.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Huh, that's neat