I love my ereader
I love my ereader. It's lightweight, fits in a pocket, and lets me read on a more comfortable (non-AI-slop) platform than my phone, laptop, or 3ds. It's neither perfect nor the same as a book, but it does the job.
I run KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite 7. With the exception of hardware, it's moreso KOReader than kindle. The only time I am in the kindle-interface is when I'm importing books as I prefer to do that over cable rather than wirelessly. I also don't have am amazon account and keep it in flight mode 99% of the time - the purpose is to read, not send tracking information to Bezos.
I bought it second hand off of Mercado Livre. It was important for me to get an old (2015) one second hand for three reasons: (1) I enjoy repurposing/reusing/repairing old tech, (2) old kindles can be jailbroken and used primarily for reading instead of Bezos' profits, and (3) buying new tech is horrible from an ecological point of view. I wanted to write "new tech unless striclty needed", but I am kind of struggling to find a recent time in my life where it was strictly needed, where I couldn't have had my needs met with an older gen second hand. It's kind of the idea that "if this did the job last year, why doesn't it now?". Good jailbreaking guides can be found here
So far I've read two books and a publication: Hunger Games 1+2, and Psykologisk Tidsskrift 25-2 - a psychology publication ran by students at NTNU. I could find epubs of the former and purchase a pdf of the latter for cheap from their websites. For anyone else with an ereader (or interest in epubs), this is a good read.
It's not on-pair with a physical book though. I can't write notes or highlight the same way, and while e-ink is good it's still not perfect; a physical book beats it by miles. When compared to my current alternative which is struggling to find physical English and Norwegian books (+ needing space to store and carry them), this still wins by miles though. It's both a case of "good enough" and "win some lose some".
Now I'm reading Graeber's essays in "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World". This feels good.
(Cool video: why is reading so hard now? by Hazel Thayer. On decline in literacy, regaining joy of reading, etc.)
Jailbreak everything. Reject the capitalists. Billions must seed.