Hi,
My Kindle won't boot anymore and keeps getting stuck in boot screen, so I thought this might be a good time to get away from Amazon, even though that device was great.
So, what non-kindle readers would you recommend?
It should have color and background light and it shouldn't be huge so I can keep it in the back pocket.
And, since I don't have any experience outside the Amazon ecosystem: how is the experience of buying and transferring books to non Kindle readers?
Update: I did research based on your recommendations. Thanks for all the input, that was way more than I expected!
I settled for the Kobo Clara Color since it seemed to almost perfectly match my needs and Kobo and the model itself got heavily recommended here and on the web.
I'd recommend a Kobo Clara. They do do a colour variant but the next part of my recommendation might not be able to cope with it, I don't know.
That next part is KOReader - you can install it 'over the top' of the standard Clara software so it becomes the working environment. Its got so many pluses I don't have time to list them all but it plays nice with Calibre, you can SSH to it, FTP to it, even access it from some cloud services. I can't say if it supports colour or not though as I don't use a colour Clara.
Transferring your current collection is probably a non-starter due to the recent limitations Amazon have put on downloading files. Getting new ebooks is up to you, there's loads of both legal and not so legal places to source books from, depending on how you feel about DRM.
In terms of transferring books - as well as the ways I mentioned above it also supports OPDS and of course standard USB cabled transfers too.