I stopped using Amazon a while back, but it was where I got all my books for a long time. I do thriftbooks mostly now, and try to buy directly from publishers when it’s a newer book, but I’m always interested in finding new spots to cop some sweet books.
Kobo is basically a direct competitor to Kindle. Like each form factor that Kindle has, Kobo has a pretty close version of their own. Their OS is open source iirc. And I think they only do e-ink.
That sounds pretty awesome. I might have to snag one, honestly. I could use a way to be able to read stuff at work without being quite so blatant as having a physical copy of something like Blackshirts and Reds on my desk 😂 thanks for the info!
What kinda stuff you like to read? I used to be a big sci-fi head, still am a bit of one but I’ve got limited reading time these days so I mostly read political works and non-fiction.
Being able to read in public without feeling like I have a target on me because of the book cover has been nice. I was reading Reform or Revolution and church and someone asked what I was reading and I just said "you know, economic theory stuff" lol.
Also being able to carry 400+ books with you in such a small format is nice.
For what I read, I spent like 14 months reading all the most obvious leftist stuff. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, and Parenti. I then spent some time reading up on autism after my diagnosis. I also have a weird fondness for trashy splatter punk horror stuff. Idk why but I chew through that stuff. Currently I think I'm starting a deep dive into nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, and stoicism to finally figure out what to call what I believe in. I started with Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray but idk about it yet. I am taking it with a grain of salt since he punches down on literally everyone in it. It's weird reading someone tear apart the mythology behind Christianity, then call Lenin's form of Communism basically a rebranding of the apocalypse myth from the Bible. Down the road I want to read more stuff in the same vein as Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg and also read through some black liberation stuff. Some day I do need to get back to Killing Hope though, but that thing is depressing af.