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?
Update: I did research based on your recommendations. Thanks for all the input, that was way more than I expected!
I settled for the Kobo Clara Color since it seemed to almost perfectly match my needs and Kobo and the model itself got heavily recommended here and on the web.
I use Calibre Web for this.
So you download the books from calibre-web using the browser on your own kobo?
No, I just “sync” my kobo to my home network with the Calibre Web instance running and it syncs the library automatically.
In order to do that you have to edit the Kobo device configs and replace the Kobo store address with the local address of your Calibre web server.
I would set it up like this. Everything you have in Calibre Web, or only on a shared shelf, will show up in your Kobo reader book section and is ready to download.
No plugins or extra software, it just works.
https://brandonjkessler.com/technology/2021/04/26/setup-kobo-sync-in-calibre-web.html
Huh, that's neat