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So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!

(All 210 books done)

Now just to be very clear. I have paid for each and every single one of the 210 books, so I see my actions as making a personal backup that is actually usable. Is all. I can now #selfhost my books, just as I do with my music, TV Series and movies (that I have also all bought, most of it as physical media. Yes, I have quite a big space reserved for physical media like vinyl, CD, DVD in my apartment. Ripped all of it to my NAS Server)

To those that have a lot of eBooks from Amazon and don't have the time/patience to manually click through the download option:

Python script to download all eBooks:
https://github.com/bellisk/BulkKindleUSBDownloader

Greasemonkey script to download all 25 per page (you still have to manually click to open all pages, but then all 25 per page are downloaded automagically)
https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js

Thank you to @eBerdnA for sharing this tip in the comments!

(you may need to set some parameters like device name, adjust the URL in the script to your countries Amazon site, eg .de instead of .com, use at your own risk)

You may notice that I limit my replies in the threads to practical things. I see a problem (how can I access my eBook collection going forward?) and share my solution (which might not be your solution) and help my neighbours on the way. I am not interested in fundamental discussions on DRM and Amazons business model. I simply don't want to waste time on things I can't change, I prefer to share my time on helping other people :)

Fixed all cover images. I now have all my eBooks in #Calibre as EPUB without DRM and I made backups of the original azw and azw3 files (so still with DRM) of all ebooks I "bought" at Amazon over the years just to be sure.

FTR, I decided to get a PocketBook Verse Pro Color. I got it for an acceptable price, it runs Linux under the hood, it connects to my local public library to get ebooks from there , has 16GB of internal storage, is waterproof and has no problem with accepting all my eBooks, including teh graphic novels I could never really read on my Kindle. PocketBook was founded in Ukraine but since 2012 they are headquartered in Switzerland. That also helps :)