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Kobo is where its at, Amazon has locked down their ecosystem to prevent piracy. Which also made my paperwhite garbage. Unless you're using Kindle Unlimited its not really worth going for kindle
I don’t understand this “Amazon has locked down” part. I easily send epub to my kindle through send to kindle or email, and the best part imo is whispersync that permits me to read among my iPhone and inkpalm 5.
Oh well if everything you do on your kindle is above board then I imagine it's a great device. Having had my jailbroken kindle auto updated to the latest version without me noticing and with no way to revert it, it has left me rather salty about the device. It can still read epubs but it now only receives KFX files from Amazon which can't be de-drm'd anymore.
On mobile read forum there are instructions to dedrm kfx from kindle. With some setbacks, I should point out