“ Amazon’s biggest rival in the e-reader space has formed an official partnership with iFixit to provide repair kits and guides for its latest models.

[ash_crow@mastodon.social]

@raymaccarthy @HollieK72 @christymarx @dadbod there's also Vivlio (French)

[kelson@notes.kvibber.com]

@dadbod The Kobo Clara is hands down the best single-ecosystem e-reader I've ever used, and I'm glad to know they're intentionally repairable now.

I've also got a Boox Go 7 which runs every ebook app I've thrown at it. They're not made to be home-repairable, but I had a good experience sending another Boox tablet in for a broken screen last year. (It took longer than expected, but I only had to cover the cost of shipping.)

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

@dadbod I have a different model Kobo and I have to say it was actually pretty easy to pop open and do some work on the inside.

[dadbod@pdx.social]

@ZenHeathen @dandrumheller https://kindlemodding.org/

[aphowell@wandering.shop]

@dadbod That's nice. (I love my Kobo, I hate Amazon, and while I don't want to put faith in companies it's refreshing when one refrains from being evil. Especially since they could've still been better than Amazon by doing way less.)

[annecavicchi@mindly.social]

@dadbod love my Kobo!

[canuckduff@mas.to]

@dadbod Friend gave me his monochrome e-ink Kobo when he upgraded and I kept it going another 10 years. {wistful sigh}

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@sol_hsa
It seems like a choice to place the battery in a spot that's inaccessible to the vast majority of users. Real repairable devices would have easily replaceable points of failure like battery and storage.
@cian @dadbod

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@dandrumheller
I moved to KoReader on my phone, and it works well. It feels a bit like its menu structure was designed by a committee of people that had never seen a menu before, though.

@ZenHeathen @dadbod

[gothodile@furs.social]

@dadbod my Kobo has been very good to me and does everything I want a reader to do. only complaint is that there's no SD card slot on the model I like.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@Ash_Crow @HollieK72 @christymarx @dadbod
Vivlio is really an online bookshop, not a ereader maker. Their Inkpad4 is a Pocketbook Inkpad4

[stevenlawsonphotography@mastoart.social]

@dadbod I totally agree with your points about Amazon Kindles but Jesus H Christ, that website your article is on is appalling - I tried reading it on an iPad and gave up when it repeatedly updated and randomly jumped about, meaning I kept losing my place. How NOT to engage people with your web design. Sheesh.

[dandrumheller@mstdn.social]

@xinit you're totally correct on the menu structure. I do have KoReader on my phone as well, but I think it's a bit too much on a phone - I like Readest on the phone better (which can sync reading position with KoReader).

The recent SimpleUI plug-in for KoReader is getting a lot of attention for making a user friendly homepage setup, though this doesn't really improve the menus much, yet.

@ZenHeathen @dadbod

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@dandrumheller
I moved from Moon+ mostly for the syncing with booklore / grimmory and its better OPDS handling. It is weird that some menu functions can't be mapped, but mostly I can stay out of the menus.
@ZenHeathen @dadbod

[jhb17@mastodon.online]

@dadbod

I moved from Kindle to Kobo a long time ago. Then when Amazon prohibited side-loading of books I moved on from Amazon.

[dandrumheller@mstdn.social]

@xinit that makes sense...I used Moon+ when I was reading only on my phone. Moved away when I got my first dedicated ereader, and soon after moved to to self hosting my library. Moon+ I think still has the best actual reader UI for a phone app. But I almost never read on my phone anymore.

As to the menus, also agree - I have most of the things I use regularly in quick menus.

I do tend to constantly tinker with crap though so never truly stay away

@ZenHeathen @dadbod