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When they say build it yourself, they mean it:
For those interested, base price to build this might start at $85 based on one estimate linked from the resource.
That version is ad-sponsored though, isn't it? If you wanted to get it without ads, I believe you need to pay extra.
You can ask customer service to remove it for free after purchase, or so I've heard.
I'm pretty sure it's a $30 dollar charge, from when I last looked into it. For that exact price difference you can get a Kobo, which isn't Amazon and doesn't have ads
If you want to just do it automatically through the settings or whatever, sure. But you can supposedly call up customer service, make up an excuse like the ads are inappropriate for your kid, and they will remove ads for no charge.
Sadly a Kobo doesn’t support my Kindle library without a good bit of extra steps that, from my experience, can wreck some books.
That's fair. Fwiw that's the main reason I tried to avoid kindle, so I would be able to take my library where i want and not be tied to Amazon
Yeah they usually won’t do this unless you’ve owned it for a while or purchased a considerable amount of content via the device. Also depends on how adamant you are about having them remove it.