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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

I rock a Kobo and used an Onyx for almost a year and they are indeed great (Onyx especially if you want to still use Kindle and don't mind a free 5G Modem).

The issue is the ecosystem. Kindle Unlimited is, even with the current Amazon bullshit, a SPECTACULAR resource for self-published authors. And it restricts what authors can sell in terms of ebooks.

There are-ish ways around it (drying up every day as per the article). But if you are buying an ereader it is generally because you like to read a lot. And the Amazon ecosystem is still nigh unbeatable.