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in what world is kindle the defacto Ereader? here in the Netherlands the book market is dominated by bol.com, which has a deal with Kobo, so here it's all epub and Kobo e-readers.

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Well, the US, obviously. I imported a kindle myself about ten years ago because they were both cheaper and better than the competitors at the time.

Worldwide they have a 80% market share, apparently. I'm staying away from Kindles because of their spying and their lack of EPUB support.

When I looked into this before, a lot of the "spying" was sending information back to Amazon in order to synchronize state between devices.

With that being said, I have an Oasis and keep it in airplane mode 99% of the time.

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