Alternatives to kindle

[hairyben]

As per the title, what would you chop kindle in for? They really seem to have it sewn up tight, massive catalogue, great UI, complete incompatibility with other devices/stores(?) - couple of authors I really enjoy seem unavailable anywhere but amazon.


FWIW, I'm a little bitter towards amazon atm for being massive pricks over a failed kitchen appliance (wedding list, no proof of purchase) so am looking to shift my 3-4 figure annual expenditure with them. I'm not looking to cut off my nose to spite my face though, although having a second ereader if I still have to maintain an amazon account for some stuff wouldn't be so bad though as with 3rd device between us it'd make sharing books with the mrs an easy thing.

[hairyben]

LukeR94 said:

Ipad mini?

Nexus tablet?

aren't they both inferior to read (LCD screen instead of e-ink), much heavier and need charging all the time?

[hairyben]

TheJimi said:

hairyben said:

FWIW, I'm a little bitter towards amazon atm for being massive pricks over a failed kitchen appliance (wedding list, no proof of purchase)

To be fair, Amazon customer service is usually pretty good, it's one of the reasons I keep returning to Amazon for stuff, and yes, I have a Kindle of my own.

Hate to say it but the Kindle / Amazon thing is hard to beat imo.

It looks that way.

despite £1,000's of purchases I can't recall ever returning anything to them, so their record for stands at 100% unsatisfactory...

[hairyben]

TheJimi said:

StuntmanMike said:

How can you have no proof of purchase when the email you a receipt and despatch?

To be fair, I was wondering that myself. Even if the item was a gift from someone else, it wouldn't be hard to get an audit trail of the purchase.

Amazon must have an audit trail but claim "data protection" prevents them checking. As the recipient of the gift, we don't have a copy of the receipt and the only person that does is on the other side of the family and my ability to influence ends there. I'm informed they notified amazon of the faulty item and we're told it will be resolved.

TBH this is all "done with", it's just backstory to prevent 17 posters asking why I wouldn't want to use amazons kindle service which so far as I can tell doesn't really have any serious competition, so thanks everyone for your replies.