I have started to read a lot more. Any EU e-book reader you can recommend? (lemmy.world)

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Of course I dream of something with feature parity with the US and Eastern alternatives, but I am not interested in color or touch. Mostly care about format support and rendering.

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[-] poccalyps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Look into Kobo readers. We love ours.

[-] Wfh@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Kobo is definitely not European (Canadian company owned by Rakuten). But I can't deny they are really good. Me and my family own several of them and they all are solid, reliable and very open.

[-] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

I love my Kobo Libra Colour... I can read books from my Google Drive and saved Articles from InstaPaper.

[-] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bought one for under a 100€ almost ten years ago. It still works great except a couple times when the screen froze and I had to wait a couple minutes but I've dropped it so many times it's probably my fault honestly.

Really easy to add books with calibre too so you don't even have to use their only store. I really like it.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I don't read ebooks but my wife does and she's on her second kobo, the first one worked for many years and she just upgraded for a few new features and new battery. Also happy with the second one.

But I don't think they are European, are they?

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Kobo is not EU-based, am I right?

[-] poccalyps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

True, but it’s not an American piece of shit like the Kindle.

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