Even I, who prefer paper books, can’t deny the perks of e-readers like the Kindle—and, well, just the Kindle. In Brazil, you can pick any e-reader you want, ...
  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 months ago

    That was pretty thin on details.

    I’ve had a Fire 8 for a while now that I bought because it was cheap as hell, thinking I could subvert it to the side of good. To an extent I guess I did, but I’d still rather use an old android 4.1 7" that doesn’t have a lock screen I can’t get rid of, so I have one less swipe to read for a few minutes when I wake up in the middle of the night.

    I wish I could make it work like that one, but so far no go. And you can’t get rid of some of the Amazon bullshit, so there’s that. It just feels like its sitting there waiting to fuck me over somehow so I don’t bother.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      Kindle Fire is a different beast: they run Android AOSP modified by Amazon and usually has low-end specs. I’d not recommend getting one anyway — tied to Amazon or otherwise.