I’d say I’ll do the same and keep my current kindle which is second-hand anyway. Thanks for the tip with knock.

Yeah the integration with the bookstore has been great with Kindle and very convenient, but a big barrier to migration which gives me some pause before simply ditching one closed ecosystem for another.

Will check out koreader for sure

Definitely gonna check out pocketbook, it was mentioned by another commenter as well :)

Thanks :)

Interesting that popular stuff is missing. Can you submit requests for missing content afayk? Qobuz has a request feature for music but so far nothing I’ve requested has been added 😫

I think this is worth looking into anyway. One of the things that attracts me to Storytel is the “unlimited” verbiage, i.e. not having to buy each book individually. Nevertheless you’re limited by what they have in their collection. I guess it’s a little extra effort to use a DRM free service and side load them to a device, but the advantages are obvious in terms of the actual ownership of the content.

Yep I got Borrowbox but the selection was quite limited and popular books are often unavailable and must be reserved.

I’m given to believe that Libby is better but unfortunately my library only has Borrowbox for now. Not a bad service by any means, just some in-built limitations 🤷

Also a fan of mailbox having switched

Yes

I replaced google drive with koofr. Very happy so far! Still unsure what I’m doing about Google wallet/Google pay…

How are Heliboard and Here Wego?

Sounds like something you’d say before engaging in some good ol’ fashioned extortion…

And the Darwin Award goes to…

No worries, thanks for your original post 👌

Wrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition

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I checked out nextcloud and koofr when switching from Google drive and settled on koofr. In terms of the criteria you outlined above:

• Decent desktop client + network drive which appears like a USB key in your file system, super usable
• Very good android app
• No document editing but you can open everything from the network drive using the editing software on your device and it syncs to the cloud
• Nice price (45 euro for 200GB, which is all I need)
• Downside: no integrated document suite for editing in the browser but the workaround with the network drive is very straightforward (one click to enable in the desktop client)

I don’t need a massive amount of cloud storage, in the terabytes, say, so I’ve found koofr ideal for my purposes. Another bonus for me is it’s a Slovene company so must be GDPR compliant.

Yep would’ve switched to koofr ages ago but I’ve been happy with the Google drive experience until I wasn’t…

Koofr is great, very user friendly!

Urly (Italy) and urlr (France)

From here: https://www.goeuropean.org/, haven’t actually used either myself but maybe you can report back some time if you go ahead with one or both?

To your list, I’ve also switched out:

• Gmail for mailbox.org
• Google calendar for calengoo
• Drive for koofr
• Netflix for Mubi
• Google docs for onlyoffice
• Edit: and chrome for Vivaldi

No complaints so far, they don’t all have exactly the same functions as the products I replaced, but they very much do the job and I’m happy overall.

Koofr and mailbox also respond rapidly to tech help requests 👍

Definitely not looking back having switched to Qobuz for streaming music. The quality is higher and the pay-per-stream beats most competitors as far as I can make out.

People lament the loss of podcasts but I never liked Spotify for podcasts, preferring to just get an RSS feed and use the podcast app of my choice.

Also a shout out to Le Chat, which is super fast and entirely adequate for everything I used to use ChatGPT for. ChatGPT grabs all the headlines with Deepseek and Gemini close behind but nobody outside my circle seems to have heard of Le Chat.