I have a kindle tablet that I’ve had for years now and I’ve been using it more often but it doesn’t fit my reading style very well. In general, it’s on the older side so I need to use my phone to transfer my books on from libby and the kindle app doesn’t always update very well between the devices. I’ve tried jailbreaking it because I’m not a huge fan of what Amazon as a conglomerate has been up to (I also don’t have any particular ties to Amazon because I don’t pay for kindle unlimited). I also don’t like the interface for highlighting and annotating and I’ve heard good things about the kobo. My kindle is also giving me a ton of trouble to read using audiobooks so I’ve been researching an alternative.

So far what I’m thinking is: is the price worth it or should I just buy the physical books and write on them? That would be a bit of a hassle though because where I live a book is like 100 dollars and the range isn’t really good. I also prefer e-books anyways. Is the subscription fee worth it? Ten dollars a month feels like a lot but idk. Should I just repurpose my old iPad and pirate pdfs to annotate? I’m only leaning away from this because it feels ethically wrong especially to the authors that I really appreciate.

I also know that a kobo allows you to use audiobooks and that’s a big plus for me because I listen to books pretty often.

I might be gaslighting myself into thinking it’s useless too. Because in all technicality my phone can do most of the same functions if I need it to but I don’t want to fall into the hole of opening my phone and then not even opening my book.