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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

What do you use? I have a Kindle Scribe and Oasis (RIP, alas) but I’d really like to extricate myself from the Bezosphere. I’m definitely getting everything I can from Libby or elsewhere but still wasn’t sure about hardware.

Page turn buttons are everything! I cannot stand the swiping. The note taking feature on Scribe is actually really impressive but everything else about it is strongly mediocre.

it's wild to me that amazon completely eliminated kindles with buttons - i guess we must be in the minority - but on the other hand i'm glad because as my oasis was slowly dying it got me off my ass to leave that ecosystem

Currently on Kobo site. Any thoughts on Libra Color vs Sage? Sage looks to be slightly larger and has audiobook capability (which I’ve never used with Kindle but, hey, you never know) and I’m not sure the color feature adds much for me. Do you actually read magazines or anything on it?

I too have an oasis but it is sadly it is still functioning perfectly. I get what I can from Libby, but don't buy from Amazon anymore. I get them from elsewhere and uhh get them onto the Kindle somehow.

Can you read books from Libby on the Kobo? I borrow a lot of digital books from the library.

I would say that about 90% of the ebooks I borrow from Libby work on my Kobo just fine. There's a screen on the Kobo that lets you set up the link between them. There are a few weird edge cases - newer books not being available yet, or sometimes I get a UK version (?) - but it's worth it to me.