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Kindle devices now support the open epub format which is a improvement at least. Kobo devices come chained to Rakuten so it's not a big enough difference for me

Kindle devices now support the open epub format which is a improvement at least. Kobo devices come chained to Rakuten so it's not a big enough difference for me to consider switching... for now.

wilsonnb3 4y ago
They only kind of support epub - you can now email a drm-free epub file to your "Send to Kindle" email address but it will be converted to a different format before being sent to your device. You still can't load or read epubs directly on Kindles.
- 33955985 4y ago
  >You still can't load or read epubs directly on Kindles To the average reader, does this have an negative impact?
  - goosedragons 4y ago
    Plenty. It doesn't support DRM'd ePubs adding an extra layer of complexity, Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers and they are picky about ePub support and sometimes book conversions will fail but would otherwise work in a native ePub reader.
    - 33955985 4y ago
      > Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers This doesn’t appear to be true. I have several non Amazon epubs that I sent using the web interface, all with covers.
      - goosedragons 4y ago
        Looking at it seems like they fixed this with Firmware 5.15.1 but for a while this was true.