I’m looking for an eReader that doesn’t lock me into a particular ecosystem or format. Ideally I came just copy files over to it and have them work.
Other than that, small physical dimensions and a backlight would be great!
It’s been years since I had one but in the market again and I’m not sure the current state of things. My old one was a Kobo and took files just fine.
I love my Paperwhite. I bought the paperwhite 3 a couple of years ago.
The issue perhaps availability and pricing, itdepends where you live, but e-readers are not really available where I am, I had to order mine through Shopee (and not many options are available - I was lucky that mine was cheap).
However, I got a paperwhite 3 (about 3-4 years back) for 3500 baht (just a little more expensive than Amazon prices without the heavy shipping costs).
I then faced an issue that some books I wanted were only made available via paperback in the Amazon store… but I live outside the USA.
Amazon is truly evil. I also believe they don’t make money out of their paperwhite, but I also heard that the new BASIC kindle is probably better (as after Paperwhite 3, with the flush waterproof screens, the contrast also suffered).
I have Calibre and I use Annie’s Archive quite a lot.
I have no problems grabbing epubs and exporting them as azw3 - all my books sit on my HDD and get synchronised to the Kindle via USB cable.