Fed Up with Kindle? Check Out This DIY eReader Alternative

I write for a living, so you might think that I have huge, overflowing bookcases in my home. But I don’t. I’ve done virtually all of my reading on Amazon Kindle devices for nearly two decades. In that time, I’ve learned that I hate Kindles — not ebooks, but Kindles. That’s why I was quite excited when I saw a post from Redditor No-Macaron4341 about a DIY ereader they’re working on.

Amazon has a near-monopoly on both ebooks and ereaders. If you read ebooks, you probably buy them from Amazon and read them on a Kindle device. Because Amazon doesn’t have any serious competition, they have been able to get away with a bad service and poor product line for way too long. Searching for ebooks on the Kindle store is a nightmare and Kindle devices are glitchy messes — I’ve owned several models and all of them would...

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