: Re: Do I need an Amazon account to use a Kindle? I am looking to buy a Kindle Paperwhite (7th gen). Do I need an Amazon account for it to work? I just want to put books on it from my PC.

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DISCLAIMER: This is by no means a marketing stunt, at the end of the day you know what is best but from your description it was clear to me that you might not be making the right decision. Just my 2p.

The benefit of using a kindle is the entire eco-system and infrastructure built around it by Amazon. If you take that away, the kindle is actually a pretty poor choice for an ebook reader. If you do not want to register your credit card and will not primarily buy your books from Amazon, you are subscribing to a world of hurt in my opinion. Please note that there are ad supported versions of the paperwhite and you need to pay extra to remove these. This brings me to the next leg of my answer.

My scenario was a lot like yours and I spent a lot of time researching the ereaders out there. I am confident to offer you the same advice and that is to actually go for a Kobo reader instead. That ereader is and a amazingly open device and very friendly towards people who would want to dump their own ebooks on to the device. Not only that, the book formats supports is great allowing you to read anything from comics (cbzs) to the industry standard epub files. In the future should you decide to buy books you can do so easily from the device itself using the kobo store.

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