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I'd go with a kobo as mine has been very good to me. Easy drag and drop interface for adding books is very nice.
I'd avoid kindle as they are quire restrictive and while you can jailbreak them it's a pain in the arse so avoid it of you can.
I'm very annoyed with my Tolino (EU branding for Kobo). Drag and drop is nice but there's no way to update metadata (fixing titles or authors for example) and now it often simply doesn't recognize new epub files which I add.
Consider installing Koreader on it and using that. It is so much better than the stock OS it is hard to express in words.
I might have to try that. I'm at the point where I am willing to buy something which runs stock Android but other than my Tolino not loading new books properly it's completely sufficient.
I did finally do this and oh goodness you're right. Thanks for reminding me this was an option.
Just don't get nerd sniped by the high level of customisability because it will eat into your reading time.
I was already familiar with koreader having used it on mobile sometimes, but I am definitely getting sucked into the customisation black hole.
Looking into it.
My wife’s kobo gets half if not less of the battery life as my kindle. Not sure why the huge discrepancy, but jailbreaking my kindle was totally worth it to have 1 month battery life with heavy usage.