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minus-squarejpablo68@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 hours agoI have a kindle keyboard (2012) and I gave up on amazon a long time ago, now I just convert-upload epubs to it using calibre and read.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoMore than a decade on, and it’s still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion. You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet. Plus it’s old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.
I have a kindle keyboard (2012) and I gave up on amazon a long time ago, now I just convert-upload epubs to it using calibre and read.
More than a decade on, and it’s still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion.
You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet.
Plus it’s old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.