<story><title>Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684801/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-features-price-release-date</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arepublicadoceu</author><text>So let me give my review of using kindle for the last three years.&lt;p&gt;I feel like kindle have two kinds of users:&lt;p&gt;- Orthodox user: only buy amazon books&lt;p&gt;- Unorthodox user: sideload books because doesn’t agree with drm or any other valid reason.&lt;p&gt;Ways in which amazon mess with unorthodox users:&lt;p&gt;- you can only sync using mobi and now you have a completely crippled book with horrible formatting;&lt;p&gt;- you have an almost good enough formatting with azw3 + calibre css kung fu but now you don’t have sync;&lt;p&gt;- want to see the cover on your sideloaded book? You need to either use it offline or use calibre workaround disconnecting the usb and reconnecting after sideloading it.&lt;p&gt;- Want to jailbreak your device? if you’re on the newest firmware you’re absolutely out of luck&lt;p&gt;So, if you’re an unorthodox user, do yourself a favor and buy any other brand of ereader. God knows whatelse amazon will do to nudge us into their walled garden on the years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elorant</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m an unorthodox reader by your definition. I&amp;#x27;ve never, ever, connected my Kindle to the Internet and use it as a simple ebook reader. I&amp;#x27;ve uploaded hundreds of books over the years through Calibre and the experience has been stellar.  I don&amp;#x27;t give two fucks about syncing since it&amp;#x27;s my primary device for reading ebooks. I also have a tablet that I use only for pdfs. As for your last point, why would I want to jailbreak a device that works perfectly for what it is?</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684801/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-features-price-release-date</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arepublicadoceu</author><text>So let me give my review of using kindle for the last three years.&lt;p&gt;I feel like kindle have two kinds of users:&lt;p&gt;- Orthodox user: only buy amazon books&lt;p&gt;- Unorthodox user: sideload books because doesn’t agree with drm or any other valid reason.&lt;p&gt;Ways in which amazon mess with unorthodox users:&lt;p&gt;- you can only sync using mobi and now you have a completely crippled book with horrible formatting;&lt;p&gt;- you have an almost good enough formatting with azw3 + calibre css kung fu but now you don’t have sync;&lt;p&gt;- want to see the cover on your sideloaded book? You need to either use it offline or use calibre workaround disconnecting the usb and reconnecting after sideloading it.&lt;p&gt;- Want to jailbreak your device? if you’re on the newest firmware you’re absolutely out of luck&lt;p&gt;So, if you’re an unorthodox user, do yourself a favor and buy any other brand of ereader. God knows whatelse amazon will do to nudge us into their walled garden on the years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fassssst</author><text>Kindle also has great integration with Overdrive though. I use the Libby app on my phone to send library books to my Kindle. They get delivered directly from Amazon and it’s the same experience as if you had bought it.</text></comment>