I definitely won’t criticize. It seems like a reasonable option for a lot of people.

From my perspective, if I had an unlimited budget I’d be buying hundreds of books a year. I don’t do that for obvious reasons, but 20% less books to support a smaller business is a pretty big sacrifice.

That does seem reasonable, especially for most who don’t buy as many books as I do.

It would add up to a decent amount more money for me personally as often as I buy bulk credits, though.

I’ve only done a small handful of my library, but you can rip your books from Audible.

I don’t really like any of the ways to manage them though.

I feel kind of shitty about it, but I use Audible for my audiobooks. They might be mediocre for authors, but you can’t beat the ceiling their credit system puts on the cost per book, and I buy too many to afford anything else.

(Check your library with hoopla or Libby if you’re in the US, though. Odds are there’s a lot available.)

I used to use Scribd/Everand as an extra library of books, but they’ve switched to a credit system where you get credits a month to “own”, but only while you have an active subscription, so fuck them.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.