<story><title>Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Part of the reason I went with a kobo over the kindle is that they support ePubs. The kindle honestly seemed a bit nicer hardware wise but I like the ability to build and read my library of DRM free books well into the future. No complaints about the kobo so far and it&amp;#x27;s lasted me nearly a decade by this point. Once it finally kicks the bucket I&amp;#x27;ll definitely stick with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tagbert</author><text>Calibre makes converting epubs and loading them onto Kindles. It handles a wide range of different ebook formats. I probably would work with your Kobo as well if you have some non-epub source documuments.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Part of the reason I went with a kobo over the kindle is that they support ePubs. The kindle honestly seemed a bit nicer hardware wise but I like the ability to build and read my library of DRM free books well into the future. No complaints about the kobo so far and it&amp;#x27;s lasted me nearly a decade by this point. Once it finally kicks the bucket I&amp;#x27;ll definitely stick with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robinsoh</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve also heard (but not verified) that kobo&amp;#x27;s firmware isn&amp;#x27;t locked down the way amazon&amp;#x27;s is, so you can compile and install your own apps and modify system scripts. In other words it&amp;#x27;s your device, not Amazon&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>