Kobo e-reader

“I spend time on Kobo (eBooks) and Libre.fm (audio books) to make sure I have purchased good reads”

“I've had a Kobo for many years, with calibre sideloading and managing my DRM-free library of ePUBs fully owned by me, and never looked back.”

“Kobo is great. Unfortunately - in India at least - the books are way more expensive on Kobo”

“I switched to buying books from Kobo this year because removing DRM from books bought at Amazon is getting too difficult and unreliable.”

“Purpose-built devices like the Kindle and Switch do one thing well; this looks like it does a lot more things but mostly poorly.”

“this can help in case the books are little technical and you have to switch to my laptop/mobile”

“It is amazing that a $100 device with a single core and 512mb RAM can do so much and run for so long.”

“Kobos are the best value in e-readers right now. (Plus relatively open and hackable.)”

“Very hacker friendly. The stock OS is serviceable, it's not ad riddled or enshittified like Kindle”

“the support is intentionally gimped to try and push you towards KEPUB/their own store”

“I came from Kobo default reader where all the settings I care about are all front and center”

“how shit the stock firmware is and how little the hardware has changed over a considerable period of time”

“no sensible support for it in open source apps is the only thing keeping my Kobo on its stock firmware”

“Kobo e-readers can connect directly to library e-book stores and download many titles directly for free from libraries.”

“which seems like a dumb way to handle that rather than a DRM existence/version check”

“The reading device, software, and books shouldn't be locked down or remotely controlled.”

“kobo devices are not locked down at all and run linux. They’re very easy to build for.”

“Now a fourth one (Kobo) in use and all the previous ones still fully functional and in use by close ones.”

“Kobo's devices let you bypass the account signup via a single option in a config file.”

“Kobo's reader connects to libraries in a way that isn't the DRM-lockin that Amazon shovels.”

“it runs linux and with koreader you can even open a terminal emulator on it, ssh into it etc”

“Kobo links with Overdrive which means you can borrow ebooks from your local library for free”

“I personally was fine with the limitations, after all I'm only one person and I would only ever read books on my ereader.”

“those devices all support regular EPUBs out of the box, and so you can still put new content on them today”

“You can get a Kobo Reader and disable internet access to it so it never connects to a server.”

“never connected it to wifi, never bought a book for it, just download epubs and write them to it”

“Trying out the Boox and Kobo readers I was immediately struck by their leggy and unresponsive UI”

“Personally i would not buy a kindle with the intent to jailbreak it, just buy a kobo.”

“I'm really happy with Kobo and have had virtually no difficulty finding books to load onto it.”

“They're pretty decent, have good battery life and you can use them in combination with Calibre for a pretty good UI.”

“pretty much every Kobo can run KOReader without any need for a jailbreak or similar”

“We have a bunch of these in our household. They don't require an account, I can just upload books via USB port on any computer, and they are pretty hackable.”

“I use a kobo which IMHO is not as good of a product but it's worth not supporting this behavior.”

“get something that doesn't need a jailbreak, like for instance literally any Kobo reader”

“Real shitty experience, while my money is already gone and I am trying to get it back.”

“Try refunding a book. Their website sent me in neverending circles and still I could not find a way to refund.”

“Font management in the Kobo is still superior, because you can change the darkness of the font.”

“They also literally can't do anything but show you books, no notifications or anything.”

“recently it's got some pretty severe unreliability issues, usually around reading non-Kobo epubs and PDFs”

“they don't officially support rooting but AFAICT they make basically no effort to prevent it”