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> Google Play Books are basically the same as Kobo, but they don't state up-front if a book has DRM or not.

they absolutely do. https://i.imgur.com/VA3G54Z.png

Very nice, I'm beginning to have a very high opinion of Google Play Books. The fact that I can upload my own epubs and use their product with them like first-class content is really damn cool. I didn't know about this aspect, but this makes a major difference to me. Thank you!

You can do that with Kindle as well...?

I've been boycotting Kindle for quite a few years now, so I genuinely don't know what that experience is like now. At least the last time I used it though, there was a pretty clear difference between my epubs and Kindle-provided content in the way the UI treated it and the user experience when consuming it. Are they fairly equivalent experiences now?

> Are they fairly equivalent experiences now?

Yeah. It’s been improving slowly for a while but it did seem to pick up just before they announced the scribe. Uploading your own documents to be able to mark them up is a key differentiation and it would have been panned if that wasn’t synced

I use the Android phone app for Kindle. Sending an ePub to it using the Windows "Send to Kindle" program[0] is really easy, and I don't notice any different user experience in the phone app when I pull up my library.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/pc

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