I stopped using Amazon a while back, but it was where I got all my books for a long time. I do thriftbooks mostly now, and try to buy directly from publishers when it’s a newer book, but I’m always interested in finding new spots to cop some sweet books.
What’s a kobo? I haven’t heard of that ereader. Do they have an e-ink version? I still prefer paper to digital, but e-ink is pretty nice, it’s the only way I’ve been able to do digital books in the past.
I buy mostly revolutionary stuff, so i like to support the authors as much as i can, though, so I’d still probably buy the ebooks since I have the privilege of having a bit of money each month to spend of frivolities.
Kobo is basically a direct competitor to Kindle. Like each form factor that Kindle has, Kobo has a pretty close version of their own. Their OS is open source iirc. And I think they only do e-ink.
That sounds pretty awesome. I might have to snag one, honestly. I could use a way to be able to read stuff at work without being quite so blatant as having a physical copy of something like Blackshirts and Reds on my desk 😂 thanks for the info!
What kinda stuff you like to read? I used to be a big sci-fi head, still am a bit of one but I’ve got limited reading time these days so I mostly read political works and non-fiction.
Being able to read in public without feeling like I have a target on me because of the book cover has been nice. I was reading Reform or Revolution and church and someone asked what I was reading and I just said “you know, economic theory stuff” lol.
Also being able to carry 400+ books with you in such a small format is nice.
For what I read, I spent like 14 months reading all the most obvious leftist stuff. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, and Parenti. I then spent some time reading up on autism after my diagnosis. I also have a weird fondness for trashy splatter punk horror stuff. Idk why but I chew through that stuff. Currently I think I’m starting a deep dive into nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, and stoicism to finally figure out what to call what I believe in. I started with Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray but idk about it yet. I am taking it with a grain of salt since he punches down on literally everyone in it. It’s weird reading someone tear apart the mythology behind Christianity, then call Lenin’s form of Communism basically a rebranding of the apocalypse myth from the Bible. Down the road I want to read more stuff in the same vein as Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg and also read through some black liberation stuff. Some day I do need to get back to Killing Hope though, but that thing is depressing af.
FYI Kobo is the North American brand name for Rakuten made eReaders. In Europe they’re sold as Tolino, with a slightly different OS/GUI as well.