I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

9 points

+1 Kobo or PineNote

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Is there anything that still has side buttons and no touch screen? I’m still holding on to my old kindle 3rd gen (kindle keyboard) because I abhor touchscreens on my books.

Ideally also with no backlight, or the ability to turn the backlight off.

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I’ve been very happy with my Vivlio Touch Lux 5 which is Linux based - https://www.vivlio.com/en/

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I didn’t know pocketbook was branded like this in France! Love them.

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That looks interesting. Looks like they only ship within the EU though.

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Boox run android, so that might fit your title.

From your post content though it actually sounds like you’d be happy with a Kobo. You can easily transfer books and you can install third party open source reading software too.

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Second on kobo, sure the OS is proprietary, but it’s good enough that I forget. And as the previous comment said, you can install third party reader software. I like koreader, it pretty much replaces the entire UI of the device

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