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Kindle downloads

First Age said:
Is this exciting?

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UK gets a Kindle-busting eBook store that breaks down the barriers

PocketBook has brought its universal English-language eBook store to the UK
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Urgh, LCP DRM. Which is fairly horrible, and (to my knowledge) can't be de-DRMed unless you have the older version of the plug in which could remove it (until they got hit by a take-down notice). That's only for previous versions of LCP, not the most recent.

LCP is why I no longer deal with NetGalley - they insist on you reading in the Thorium app (no thanks, I read on a Kobo not an app, and no I do not have wi-fi switched on).

Horrible storefront as well - really bad categorisation...
 
And, in case anyone is interested, a quick check against my most common use cases for the Kindle, Kobo and PocketBook apps. The core of my requirements is being able to carry a couple of dozen books around with me when I'm away from home while leaving my back intact and enough room in my suitcase for fripperies like spare clothes.

Can I use it to read PDFs? Kindle - usually yes if I email them to myself but it has a size limit and it's funny about some with DRM; Kobo - not as far as I can tell; PocketBook - autoloaded all PDFs on the device once I gave it file access. Kindle and PocketBook remember which page I was on, which is more than some PDF readers.

Does it have books I'm currently looking for? Kindle - all of them, Kobo - 2 out of 3, PocketBook - none of them, although in theory I could buy two on Google Play and load them into it. (Those being Forgotten Ruin by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, Do Less by Rachel Jonat, and Sette Breve Lezioni di Fisica by Carlo Rovelli; PocketBook did offer me that last in German or Russian, but not Italian - surprising for a Swiss company.)

Can I buy books from within the app? Kindle - no; Kobo - not at the moment but I have managed it once before; PocketBook - allegedly, but it didn't have anything I wanted to buy.

PocketBook does get points for complying with GDPR but appears to ship my data to Google and Microsoft, making compliance meaningless. The English translations of its T&C are bad enough that I thought at first it was a fake app put out by scammers. At the moment, however, I'd say it's a decent PDF reader but not much of an e-reader.

It appears that wanting to read multiple file formats and buy - sorry, rent - the books I want from within the reader app is asking too much.
 
I've been playing around with my iPad mini 6 today and am really pleased with it. I've been able to load all my ePubs into the Books app (I downloaded a converted my Kindle collection earlier this year plus others I've bought from other sources over the years) along with PDFs and was able to read these well. I was also able to easily switch to Prologue so I could listen to my audiobooks. So far, so pleased :)
 
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