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Or just buy a Kobo and be done with Amazon without any kind of hacking.

Yep. You can also sync to your own self-hosted book platform like Calibre-Web or Komga instead of or alongside the Kobo store. That way you can easily sync books from multiple stores.

Or just buy a Kobo and be done with Amazon without any kind of hacking.

Whenever someone on HN complains about Kindles, someone else recommends Kobo. But I never see anyone recommending the Nook.

I haven't used a Nook in close to a decade, but when I did, it was very hackable. I even used a $5 one from Goodwill as an e-ink photo frame. Are the modern Nooks as bad as Kindles now?

I really like Boox devices. It’s a full on android tablet with e ink.

Boox is great once you bend it to your will but there is a lot of obscure option mangling to do it. It's not malicious - the boox people are trying to hide the footguns - but there is a lot of "Why doesn't X work?" until you find some buried setting.

100%. It’s got a learning curve. Especially with the color ones, until you find the dark color enhancement setting, text is not dark enough.

I opt for Boox because I run the Storyteller app on it, which I also run on my phone so I can easily switch back and forth between listening and reading.

It’s phenomenal once you get it dialed in with storyteller.

I love my Kobo Forma except for the fact that the battery life is complete trash. I’m pretty sure Kobo did not replace the battery on the refurbished device I purchased :(

I have battery problems with my kobo Libra. When I'm using it to read at night, there's no warning from night to night between when it has mostly full battery and then being unable to use it without a charge.

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