I ended up accepting the vendor lock-in and went with Kindle.
Having tried built my own e-reader app for a few years a long time ago, I can confidently say I'm not a fan at all of the vendor lock-in approach, but ultimately it does still provide me with the best reading experience.
It's also good to know that there are ways to break the DRM so if you ever to move away from Kindle, you should still be able to read those books. Similarly, you can import .epub's etc on your Kindle as well although it might require some work.
Calibre on macOS can help with that and is also a good tool to just manage all your ebooks.
Thanks for letting me know, and it seems like that's the reality we face. It's kind of weird if we're dependent on Amazon for like our collected knowledge... will see how it goes with Calibre
+1 for Calibre - I've also set up an online library for it using github.com/janeczku/calibre-w…
My collections are primarily books for research/teaching at uni - with the online portal I can read them on the go.
I ended up accepting the vendor lock-in and went with Kindle.
Having tried built my own e-reader app for a few years a long time ago, I can confidently say I'm not a fan at all of the vendor lock-in approach, but ultimately it does still provide me with the best reading experience.
It's also good to know that there are ways to break the DRM so if you ever to move away from Kindle, you should still be able to read those books. Similarly, you can import .epub's etc on your Kindle as well although it might require some work.
Calibre on macOS can help with that and is also a good tool to just manage all your ebooks.
Thanks for letting me know, and it seems like that's the reality we face. It's kind of weird if we're dependent on Amazon for like our collected knowledge... will see how it goes with Calibre
+1 for Calibre - I've also set up an online library for it using github.com/janeczku/calibre-w…
My collections are primarily books for research/teaching at uni - with the online portal I can read them on the go.