My Kindle Paperwhite 2 is starting to show its age. I want to get out of the Amazon ecosystem and switch to Kobo, but I’m weary of taking on the project of file conversion. Anyone have experience with switching? 📚

@lauralo You could just start fresh with Kobo and then convert your Amazon books later.

@lauralo Why do you want to switch? Get away from Amazon?

I figure I’ll nurse my 2013 Paperwhite until something interesting comes along. Maybe color e-ink.

@lauralo I am downloading my Kindle library to Calibre, should I wish to access them on a different device. It also means that I have the backed up locally as well I do a few at a time and am slowly working through my books.

I occaisionally look to see what the latest is for e-readers. What made you pick Kobo against say Nook (outside of the Kindle ecosystem)?

@crossingthethreshold Can you download Audible audiobooks from the Kindle trough this also? @lauralo

@odd That I don’t know. I think that Calibre only handles text books, I rarely listen to audio books and so it is something that I have not looked into. One thought is to go online to your Amazon e-book library and see if the audio books are there to download? // @lauralo

@crossingthethreshold Yes, it would be interesting to see if I could do that.

@crossingthethreshold @odd I'll check out Calibre! I don't own any audiobooks but my husband has some good ones on Audible that I can try downloading. Looking @ Kobo because I'm tired of supporting Amazon and it was the Wirecutter's recommendation, which I generally trust.

@lauralo Kobo is great. Not only do they offer a lot of DRM-free ebooks but they have a history of treating authors well. One of these days I need to download my Kindle library offline. I wish we had better choices for non-retailer linked e reader apps! Calibre is powerful but clunky and there’s no mobile sync that I’m aware of.

@lauralo Thank you for the Wirecutter link. Very informative and including some further helpful links.

@lauralo I was curious if you made the move to Kobo? If so, how are you finding the move from Kindle?

@crossingthethreshold not yet! I’m reading two books on my sad kindle now though, we’ll see if its performance bugs me enough to upgrade

@lauralo It sounds as though you are in a similar place to me. ”shall I, shan’t I?”