Now that it supports Crosspoint, I may have to get one of these. Even tho I promised myself that I have enough ereaders. lol

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I’m gonna try this, but I have a feeling my machine will be too slow to run it.

Which is too expensive for my needs.

.epub should be the standard. I will never use proprietary formats every again.

I don’t mind Kobo. I don’t mind American stuff either.

Same. I do think Kindles are good devices, but I have the older Kindle 3 era readers. They are great little workhorses.

I’m great! Amazon is the #1 seller of ereaders in the world, so since I follow ereaders, I’m gonna come across Amazon Kindles. Every single person in real life that I know who has an ereader, has a kindle. So watching Lemmy pretend that’s not a reality, gets old.

My daily reader isn’t even a kindle though. It’s an Xteink :)

I think their sales numbers disagree with you. They’re still the number one ebook and ebook reader seller in the world. Amazon’s share of the US ebook market is 70–80%, while Kindle’s share of the dedicated e-reader market has been estimated as high as 72%.

EDIT: Removed my rant, because it may have come across as too negative. :)

I feel the same way. I don’t buy any ebooks, because I only read free stuff anyway, and I still don’t have time to read it all!

But I do see the prices of works out there, and it can get kinda crazy.

You think me asking someone about their grocery bill was “shaming”?! LMAO

Maybe you should read the whole thread. He was not shamed and he mentioned that it’s for entire family and a dog. It was a discussion. Not purity-testing. The fact that you view it as somethig else, is sooo weird to me.

If stuff like that makes you upset, oh boy, you must get upset about a lot of things every day. Good luck out there, and I hope you stay safe! 🤣

Why?

Ahhh, ok, that makes more sense then.

You’re monthly grocery bill is 4 figures?! Every month?! Holy hell! I spend $130 USD a month on groceries. What the hell are you eating that costs so much?! are you eating 10 times as much as I am?!

Sure, but most people who use ereaders, buy Kindles and use Amazon. That’s why they are the number one seller of ebooks and ereaders.

Grandma Witting doesn’t sit around thinking about the anti-capitalists and fediverse supporters who hate all businessmen and big companies. She wants to get her groove on with a trashy romance book that she can buy with two clicks, and then delete after she’s done reading.

Plus Amazon has solid devices. I have several myself, but my regular-ereaders are the Xteink, and Pocketbook. As long as people are reading, I don’t care what they are reading it on.

I don’t mind Amazon. They have great readers and if it wasn’t for them, I don’t think ebooks/ereaders would have taken off as well as they have. They pushed a lot of innovation.

But we do have more non-amazon options now, which is a good thing!

I agree with you for the most part. But I got an Extienk X4 for $55 a week ago or so (https://lemmy.zip/post/69760625)

I thought it would be too small, but I actually love it because it’s so small and I carry it everywhere. Before this though, I’ve always read on a used Kindle 3.

I don’t like Durobo’s ereader though, it’s not something I would want. it looks very awkward, and way too expensive.

This looks awesome! Can’t wait! Sure, would have been nice if it was more grimy, but I’ll take it.

I have never heard of any of this. It sounds interesting, so I’ll be sure to check your community out!