11-29-2023, 01:36 PM | #1 |
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Kobo store price comparisons
I wrote a little perl script to help me find which Kobo "country" store gives the cheapest prices for a book. It might be helpful to others.
GitHub gist To use it, find the book you're interested in on the store, and pass the entire URL to the script. e.g. Code:
kobocompare https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/alliance-rising-1 I've hardcoded a set of currency conversions to GBP, which obviously could be improved by someone. Equally obviously it could check each store in parallel instead of one at a time. Patches welcome, as they say. |
12-01-2023, 07:20 PM | #2 |
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That seems handy, but don’t you require a separate account for each Kobo store? I have one for Japan and another for the US and their accounts and libraries are separate. I’ve held off creating a Canadian account for that reason, though if I buy it cheap from Canada (they have more sales, the bums! Haha), I could always strip the DRM and sideload it into my US Kobo.
I’m curious how you utilize this script. |
12-01-2023, 10:49 PM | #3 |
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You can "travel" on the Kobo store by changing your country and using PayPal so you don't have to enter a billing address.
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12-02-2023, 05:00 AM | #4 |
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Kobo's Japan store might be different, but so far I've successfully bought books from India, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Norway all by:
Or in other words from experience Kobo's DRM just locks you to an account (an email address) and not a billing address/country/store. Last edited by chrisridd; 12-02-2023 at 05:01 AM. Reason: formatting |
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Sadly this script no longer works due to changes on kobo.com. The website now seems to return a page full of Javascript that you have to execute to get the "real" web page.
Maybe it is possible to rewrite it as a Javascript "bookmarklet" for your web browser? Help from Javascripting gurus is welcomed! |
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