2026-04-21 15:44 UTC
I don't want to ruin good news, but everyone needs to know that Kobo is owned by the shitty Japanese Amazon equivalent called Rakuten since 2012. So the risk of enshitification is pretty high, why not if the hardware is nice, but try to cut as many software ties as possible.
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@EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 04:22
Ra Ra Rakuten
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@ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 16:04
They haven't made side loading harder as long as I've been using kobo, I only use their software to launch koreader. Comments like these are super strange to me... Are you suggesting people should go with a different brand, why not mention one specifically? As it reads you won't like any ereader that is owned by a corporation? I guess you're going to be building an open source ereader and release it for free so it can't be enshitified?
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@BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 16:24
It's been 14 years, and no sign of then making anything shitty, your point at this time is moot.