For anyone interested in this news, don’t forget to check out your local library. If you’re in the US there’s a good chance that your library card will also give you access to online audiobooks for free!
If your library has hoopla you can get ebooks, music, tv shows, movies, comics, and magazines too. Unfortunately doesn’t work with ereaders for the ebooks.
Libby only supports kindle.
Both do support Android, though. There are Android ereaders available, and while they’re mostly Chinese companies I don’t personally trust much, low powered for tablets, and old Android with minimal support in terms of upgrades, I personally think the trade off is worth it compared to how limited your choices on proprietary readers are. I wouldn’t put confidential documents on them, but I also probably wouldn’t trust Amazon with that either.
Hoopla is the greatest
^ The Libby app works great for audiobooks, too!
My library also supports Hoopla, which is a limited number of borrows per month, with instant availability. The catalogue is probably lesser, but it’s different so adds options.
