On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:34:48PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM GMT, Tom Browder wrote: > > But, can your Kobo reader handle the Kindle format? > > > > What model do you recommend? > > Chiming in: I love my Kobo Libra 2, which I think is now discontinued and > replaced with the Kobo Libra Colour. > > It cannot read the kindle format natively (mobi/azw) but converting from one > to the other is easy. Calibre (already mentioned) can do it; there's also a > tool "kepubify" which can improve an ePUB's performance on Kobo readers: > https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ > > Books purchased from Amazon are encrypted with DRM: this can be reasonably > easily removed with "deDRM" tools that plug into Calibre. > > One thing I like about the Kobo is how hackable it is. I've got syncthing on > mine, so to add a book to it I merely have to copy the file to my local > folder, and syncthing does the rest. >
My experience with KoBo was very short: * Unboxed the device * Had to read through the "EULA" * Saw on with Wireshark that each "next page of EULA" was a "phone home" * Put the device back in the original box * Got refund (and did buy another "Ebook reader") Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
