Getting to know my BOOX

For a long time I’ve been trying to practice a kind of harm reduction to my addiction to digital devices. I love reading, books most of all, but when I’m travelling or when I just HAVE to get a hold of something that would otherwise take a while to arrive in physical form, ereaders are the way to go. The problems are of course increasingly down to both eshittification and the dopamine hits that come from how our digital devices lock our attention. Enshittification means that our devices are tied to a seller – be it Kobo, Kindle, Apple Books or whatever – and DRM locks means we cannot transfer material to a better reading device. Getting myself off Amazon has been a challenge because the kindle really is a great device. (Ton’s posts inspired me) And my subscription to things like BookBub means I have a bunch of books on my kindle that I want to read and for which I paid a couple of dollars. I don’t want to lose those. Kobo seems like the easy answer, but again, won’t let me read kindle…