The thing that kept me on Kindle/Audible is real-time text highlighting, where it highlights words in the ebook in time with the audiobook (like karaoke lyrics!)
I'm really surprised and disappointed no other platform seems to have this. Offer it DRM-free and you'd get so much of my money
For DRM-free audiobooks, I'm trying out libro.fm. Pretty similar model to Audible (subscription or one-off purchases) but you don't lose your credits if you unsubscribe. I can't tell you how much that annoyed me about Audible
Kobo sells a lot of DRM-free books, but DRM-free ebooks seem to have a much more scattered marketplace. I don't want to sign up for a million sites and have a bunch of scattered libraries; I already have that for ttrpgs and it's quite an annoyance
@SymbolicCity That's definitely the thing that's motivating me off Amazon/Kindle—even if a title is available DRM free, Kindle books have their own format fuckery to keep me from backing it up. Kobo Desktop at least makes it easy to get the DRM-free format when it's available
@SymbolicCity Ah, good to know. I read everything on my phone and use Calibre to process stuff for backup, so I don't care too much about hardware-specific stuff