{"id":398,"date":"2026-01-23T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2026\/01\/23\/goodbye-kindle-hello-kobo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:24:14","slug":"goodbye-kindle-hello-kobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2026\/01\/23\/goodbye-kindle-hello-kobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Kindle, Hello Kobo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" data-attachment-id=\"397\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2026\/01\/23\/goodbye-kindle-hello-kobo\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy S24 Ultra&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1769163415&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166674000088&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20260123_1016541510392258732077905\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?fit=525%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260123_1016541510392258732077905.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Retiring my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite after over 10 years. (Had to look that one up.) Moving to Kobo since it supports my local library eBook borrowing services. While I&#8217;ve been using Kindles for over a decade, I hate their walled garden approach to books.<br><br>I&#8217;ll still keep the Kindle around, so I can access the eBooks I own on that platform. But, it&#8217;s Kobo all the way now. Plus the colour e-ink is so cool, especially for comics &#x1f913;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retiring my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite after over 10 years. (Had to look that one up.) Moving to Kobo since it supports my local library eBook borrowing services. While I&#8217;ve been using Kindles for over a decade, I hate their walled garden approach to books. I&#8217;ll still keep the Kindle around, so I can access the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/2026\/01\/23\/goodbye-kindle-hello-kobo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye Kindle, Hello Kobo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wlZw-6q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgon9.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}