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TemporaryChipmunk806 t1_ixw0hjm wrote

Hey all! I'm looking to expand my reading accessibility in the coming year and I have heard good things about getting an E-Reader. The catch is that I am desperately avoiding giving Bezos any of my money, so I am looking for solid recommendations for e-readers that are NOT Kindle brand of any kind. I've done some reading online and Google searching, but all the things I am seeing reek of ads and monetary bias. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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MugWatch t1_ixx0c4f wrote

I have a Kobo Clara and love it! It has really good battery life, and you can just drag/drop epub files straight from your computer, it's compatible with Overdrive, and it has it's own bookstore (I'm not familiar with it though). For me the biggest benefit is the setting to invert the colour of the screen, it makes reading in the dark just before falling asleep a lot nicer.

They just came out with a second generation of that model as well, just the usual incremental upgrade you expect with tech products these days.

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Zikoris t1_ixx6pe6 wrote

I've been a Kobo user for many years, reading on the Clara model now for about the last 18 months and loving it. It stands up very well to extremely heavy usage (400 books a year). I have Kobo Plus as well for now and have been finding a lot of good reads on there.

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