Created by the popular but often controversial company Amazon, the humble Kindle eReader and its associated ebooks have revolutionized and permanently shifted the trajectory of the book and publishing industry. Following the success of the rapidly growing ebook market, in 2014 Amazon introduced their digital subscription service Kindle Unlimited. Now if you somehow stumbled on to my book blog, you’re likely quite familiar with ebooks and Kindle Unlimited so I can likely cut this intro blurb and get right into the nitty-gritty details. But for those unfamiliar with Kindle Unlimited (I’ll be shortening it to KU for the rest of this review), KU is a subscription service that promises a huge selection of ebooks, free to access and read with no limitations on how long you can keep them for compared to the similar Libby/Overdrive system offered by Libraries. While you can technically download and read an unlimited number of ebooks from Amazon’s rotating selection, you can only access and read them for as long as you have an active KU membership. Instead of paying a licensing fee per purchase (aka Amazon’s version of “buying an ebook”), the monthly payment gets you blanket access to Amazon’s huge library akin to…
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