Hi all and kindle users in particular.

I am thinking of buying kindle - I read a lot and it’s hard to carry books with me a lot of times.

I’m very interested in kindle, but … I hate the idea of buying from Amazon. I’ve been doing my best to support local bookstores and would love for that to continue. Unfortunately, these stores do not have kindle alternatives (ebooks to be read from phone, which I would like to avoid).

I wonder, those of you that use kindle, are you able to download and read non-amazon books?

  • literattina@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had a Kindle for 14 years now and just retired my first one, after upgrading to the 2022 version.

    As for the giving money to Amazon, I payed 80€ back then and my first Kindle survived 14 years of regular reading, so I can live with that. The ebooks I read I either borrow from local library or ‘find’ online, so no money to Amazon there. You can easily download any book to it, in this new version it’s as simple as adding it to your Kindle app on the phone. So if this is your main concern, you don’t ever have to buy an ebook from Amazon :)

    And having a Kindle actually made me buy more books than I did before, because it opened me to so much new literature that wasn’t available in my country (small European place).