Ugh, I hate this kind of stuff.

At the same time, I’m a poor college student who finds the fact that the Kindle edition of books is often half the price of a physical copy, and everything is available through Amazon.

Can anyone recommend a good ereader/publisher stack? I’ve considered trying to find ePub versions and then converting them to work on my Kindle—is that possible?

Help free me from this prison!

I recommend the Remarkable 2. In addition to serving as an e-reader, it is an excellent notebook replacement.

As a cool note about the Remarkable 2..."under that Eink screen sits a dual core 1.2GHz ARM CPU, with 1GB of RAM, running Linux... and... you can SSH into it by default!!!" [1].

[1] https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks

I have a Remarkable 2 (and love it), but one downside is that it only takes DRM-free books for it's e-reader. I wish the company would partner with some publishers so that I could buy books to read on the device.

At least we have Standard Ebooks[1] in the meantime!

[1] https://standardebooks.org/

Perhaps KOReader will solve your issue: https://github.com/koreader/koreader