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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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[โ€“] poccalyps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Look into Kobo readers. We love ours.

[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Kobo is not EU-based, am I right?

[โ€“] poccalyps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

True, but itโ€™s not an American piece of shit like the Kindle.

[โ€“] Wfh@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Have you liked the colour? I've started reading some light novels, and that made me wish I could see color for some of the occasional illustrations instead of pulling out my phone for them.

[โ€“] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago

I read a lot of comics and manga and I'm always happy when I can read the colored comics on my Kobo.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 day 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?

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bought one for under a 100โ‚ฌ 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.