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There are other ways to buy books, I don’t understand why so many people have a boner for Amazon. It feels like Stockholm syndrome to me. I’ve never bought a single book from Amazon, not one.

Kindle just works

I can read a book in a series, finish it, buy the next one and it’s ready to read before I’ve gotten a new cup of tea.

Lol. This is the exact same on…checks notes… every single other platform I know of. I have a kobo sage and it’s the same, except that kobo runs on Linux and they don’t lock their system. You can literally “jailbreak” it and still get updates from them. They also don’t lock their books with encryption like on kindle so they lock you in. IMHO, there is 0 reasons to buy a kindle now, period.

I’ve tried the Kobo store (sold my Kindle and got a Libra 2 Color), but the selection is a bit lacking.

Some books just don’t exist there, which means I can’t just click and buy the next one from the Kobo UI.

You can buy those books (if possible) from the publisher directly and load them onto your Kobo via a computer.

Does overdrive have only audio books or regular books, too?

@penquin probably depends on your library but mine has plenty of normal books on there.

@penquin to clarify, yes, it has loads of standard ebooks on there but it's up to your library how many copies, if any, of anything in the catalogue to make available. My library usually has about 3-4 copies of anything popular and you get them for two weeks, but you can delay the hold if your turn comes up and you're busy reading something else. If anything is crazy popular they will review and make more available to reduce the waiting time.

Thank you