The company is refreshing its entire e-reader lineup, launching four new Kindle devices.

I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

  • Everett@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’d recommend everyone to buy a Kobu over these, its much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.

    • firepenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Thanks for this. Was in the market for an e-reader and didn’t really feel like jumping through Amazon bullshit

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Got a very old kindle for free, from someone getting rid of it. No touch, no backlight, most basic thing ever. I only got my account on it to download a dictionary.

      I am never buying anything from Amazon to read on it, but I’ve been using it quite a bit, only on calibre converted stuff. It was not too hard to set up, and once it’s done it’s just drag n drop.

    • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Amazon also bought up a comic distributor a while back which may make this easier to get the content I want.

      I’ve never had issues emailing PDFs and epubs to my kindle address to read them.

      I’ll need to check out kobu though, they have a color one that’s $100 cheaper.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Where’s the one with unlimited internet connectivity for the lifetime of the device…I’m not seeing it.

      My wife has the oasis that has cellular connectivity so she can read newspapers, rss feeds, etc. But I don’t see a Kobu with that feature.