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Why get something just to jail break it when open alternatives exist?
Pocket Book is the most "open" I believe
Kobo is good and has a store
Onyx, exists, though I couldn't tell you much - they are expensive.
Because old kindles are about to show up on ebay for like $10-20 - how much do those open alternatives cost? They'll be useless bricks to a lot of people - some will figure out how to use them in different ways, some will throw them away, and some will try to sell them for dirt cheap.