I need a new reading tablet. I’m not entirely sure but I heard people talking about how a lot of new tablets are becoming difficult to put pirated books onto.

Need suggestions. Cheap too maybe? Please.

  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I am still using a Nook (Barnes and Noble’s brand) ereader from 2009. It was in storage in a damp basement for a year, and the fake leather case it was in literally disintegrated around it, but it was fine. The battery turned spicy pillow, so I replaced it for a few bucks, but other than that, it’s still working great. I haven’t connected it to wifi in like 10 years, so I have no clue how well transferring books from a library works. It has a micro SD card slot that makes it capable of holding a huge amount of books, so I just drag/drop a hundred books on every few years by plugging it into my computer. The only complaint is no backlight.

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      5 days ago

      that’s impressive, mine crapped itself years ago and wouldn’t charge. Went to a Kindle, now on a Kobo Libra Colour (fuck Amazon) use Calibre for self hosted ebooks and Overdrive for Library’s Books.