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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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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Not defending Amazon, but you can do this with Kindle too. I've had my kindles in airplane mode since I bought them (for me and my wife) and I'm adding books directly with Calibre anytime I want. You don't need their whole "ecosystem".