“ 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.

[sawaba@infosec.exchange]

@dadbod how painful is the ecosystem switch these days?

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@dadbod
The article incorrectly claims Amazon practically invented the ereader.
1990 Sony ereader using mini CDs.
1998 Predecessor to epub2 was published and an ereader with a modem.
Palm & Win CE PDAs used to read ebooks
2005 Sony does first eink ereader
2005 Amazon buys biggest seller of ebooks for PDA & smartphones: Mobipocket (who use obsolete mobi format)
2007 Amazon launches 1st eink Kindle in USA only.
Project Gutenberg PD ebooks are since 1972!

[oszy@ieji.de]

@dadbod
I've got two Kobos, the Elipsa 2E and the Clara 2E and I love them!

[frank@fraxoweb.social]

@dadbod

Last year, I bought a PocketBook Verse e-reader.

I don't buy Kindles anymore

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@dadbod

idk which model of Kobo i have, but it's an older one. you can run NetBSD on it if you want to! i'm not sure what anyone would do with NetBSD on this thing, but it's cool that it's possible.

[mikalintu@livellosegreto.it]

@dadbod guess who bought a new Kindle Paperwhite on Christmas 2025 to substitute the older broken one? :S

[darren@c.im]

@dadbod Stop it! I'm not used to receiving good news.

[johnbrown@thecanadian.social]

@dadbod I mean we stopped being amazon customers in like 2016. You could see ALL of this coming decades ago, lol.

We went as far a hiring a lawyer to go after a bullshit online seller who hid the fact they were an amazon storefront. We would never use a kindle, and have our own source for ebooks. I hear its getting pretty wild in amazon land =P

[nilace@curloftheburl.nylarea.com]

@dadbod Wwwwwwwooooow, huge Kobo fan here! So glad to read this.

Thank you for sharing it.

[derekheld@infosec.exchange]

@dadbod Kobo is also working on a partnership with Bookshop.org

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@dadbod

I've got three #ereaders.
All feel like someone dipped a down clocked tablet in honey

I buy one every couple of years because I get high on failure and disappointment

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@dadbod
I've had my Kobo for a couple of years now and haven't had a single complaint.

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@dadbod I have an old Kindle, because it was in an ewaste bin with nothing wrong. Other than the fact that it was tied to 3G cellular, and therefore seemed dead to its owner when 3G went bye-bye.

No problem, I can load books with a USB cable. They still exist. And no contact with Amazon, either.

[terrasays@mastodon.social]

@dadbod

I’ve had a Kobo Clara BW for about a year and with the exception of its VERY long boot-up time (from powered off) it’s pretty solid. Not sure about its repairability though. Just picked up an Xteink X4 and it similarly doesn’t look physically repairable but the form factor is unbeatable.

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@dadbod great news!

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@contrasocial same!

[dadbod@pdx.social]

@the5thColumnist I love mine too.

[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.