Bought a kobo recently. Bought it direct from Kobo, Walmart wasn’t involved at all in any step. Worked perfectly out of the box with Caliber too. Nice little device, library interface could use some work but it’s functional.
Nice to know. I thought about buying from Walmart so I’d have recourse w/ retail, but if they have any change in firmware, I’ll just buy straight from Kobo.
“make” usually implies already having one, advising to just go out when given the option to recycle an existing kindle with a debloated experience to instead go and buy something else is encouraging ewaste
Buy a Kobo EReader.
Hack the EReader so you don’t have to sign up with Walmart.
Install Calibre on your PC.
Install Kobo Driver Extension for Calibre.
Use a VPN (I prefer Mullvad), and go to your favorite Book piracy website for epubs.
Download epub books.
Connect Kobo device to your PC via USB.
Use Calibre to upload epub books to Kobo.
Disconnect Kobo from PC.
Profit.
Or just:
No need for piracy, read a bunch of library books if you don’t want to pay for books.
Bought a kobo recently. Bought it direct from Kobo, Walmart wasn’t involved at all in any step. Worked perfectly out of the box with Caliber too. Nice little device, library interface could use some work but it’s functional.
Nice to know. I thought about buying from Walmart so I’d have recourse w/ retail, but if they have any change in firmware, I’ll just buy straight from Kobo.
I recommend installing calibre web on a home server, installing koreader on the Kobo, and accessing your eBook library over your WiFi and OPDS.
Koreader is such a good reading experience, I never want to go back to stock firmware (well, except for the dictionaries maybe, those are better.)
“make” usually implies already having one, advising to just go out when given the option to recycle an existing kindle with a debloated experience to instead go and buy something else is encouraging ewaste