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We are Sebastian and Musaline. We write about e-readers, and the obvious question anyone should ask a review site is: what do you actually read on them?
So here is the whole record. Between 2017 and 2026 we borrowed 1,237 books — 945 different titles by 586 authors — from three library systems: Los Angeles Public Library, Qatar National Library, and Gwinnett County Public Library in Georgia. Every one of them read on one of the devices reviewed on this site.
It is not a curated list. It is a borrowing history, which is a more honest thing.
Browse by year
The ones we went back for
Some books we borrowed three, four, even six times across the years. That list is short and it is the most revealing page here.
The books we borrowed again and again →
Three libraries, three chapters
- Los Angeles Public Library — 1,069 loans. The bulk of it.
- Qatar National Library — 111 loans. Reading from Doha, which is where a lot of this site gets written.
- Gwinnett County Public Library — 57 loans. Georgia.
If you have wondered why we bang on about library borrowing in our reviews, and why we are so blunt that Kobo beats Kindle for library books outside the US — this is why. We have been doing it across three countries for nine years.
What we read them on
The devices in our photographs have these books on their screens. Deep Work on the Kindle Oasis 2019. A French edition of Harlem Shuffle on a Kobo. Chester Himes on a Tolino Vision 5. A Turkish Sula on a Kobo Aura.
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