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.
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