Any suggestions for a 10 inch reader with limited functionality? (mainly just reading

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by Quoth

No Kobo accepts files by bluetooth.

They can download via WiFi using the limited functionality Browser.

Not quite true. The original Kobo ereader had Bluetooth and was designed to accompany a blackberry phone and accept files from it. One could also send files from a PC via Bluetooth.

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[John F]

Originally Posted by Pw23

Thanks for the replies

I do have Wi-Fi and access to an iMac but I prefer not to use it as it's difficult for me and I just use my iPhone 15+ to download Books From t Op rrenta/Foreign
I downloaded to the phone and AirDrop it to my iPad Air4
Can this be done with other e-readers that have Bluetooth? Has it very convenient for me?

Besides thex boox mox note 3, are there any other 10 inch he readers that are better?
If all 10 inch readers have the pen/stylus, that's fine
I just don't require colour if B&W is better quality
My budget would be £400-500, I am in the UK

As I'm in the Apple ecosystem, I'd prefer not to go for android he
The iPad is always on a stand, so I never have to hold it so the 10 inch size isn't a problem for me
Thanks

If you can get it/epub to your Apples and you have wifi, you can get it to google drive, and from there some of the newer Kobos have built in Google drive support.

If you wanted to go with Amazon and don't mind registering an Amazon Scribe, you could use email to send epubs to a Scribe.

And just a friendly reminder, help with getting pirated material is verboten is this forum.

[John F]

And how about this...

Download an epub to your iPhone.
Plug a cable from your iPhone to Kobo
Use the files app on the iPhone to transfer the epub to your kobo.

I just tried this with an iPhone 15 and a Clara 2e, and it worked. Hopefully there are no database issues from just unplugging the cable.

[Aleron Ives]

The iPhone doesn't have an eject/unmount option?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Didn't work on my iPhone 4S, which I only gave away 2 weeks ago.

Odd since my iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3 did allow tethering back in 2011. If it was being blocked by the company supplying your connection, it likely would not have worked with any device.

[Pw23]

Yes actually I didn't think about that. I can send it via Wi-Fi to the Google Drive, I'd actually prefer to. Have an e-reader that doesn't have Bluetooth, so my option should be more than

With this being considered, based our requirements would you still go for the kobo elipsa 2 m fee se?

[Quoth]

My Elipsa is gathering dust. I bought the Sage 8" a few weeks later (I already had a Libra 7" before the Elipsa). I now mostly use the Sage to read. It's actually got more pixels than an Elipsa.
If something is PDF too detailed or shaded for the Sage, it's often no use on the Elipsa either and is read on the TCL Nxtpaper 11 (10.9″ full colour almost eink quality in mono, matt screen).
I also ditched the 5" and 4.7" eink for a Nxtpaper 40 phone.

Almost all my reading is on the Kobo Sage.

[Quoth]

Note that Google Drive is used for AI training, so may be a violation of copyright to use it for copyright works.

[JSWolf]

The problem is that such a basic Reader does not exist at 10". You just have to take what you get and ignore any features you don't want.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Note that Google Drive is used for AI training, so may be a violation of copyright to use it for copyright works.

That's hardly a concern for the user; the violator is Google.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

That's hardly a concern for the user; the violator is Google.

It is copyright violation if you upload to a Sharing Site. Admittedly the public can't directly access your content, they have to query the search engine dressed as a chat bot that doesn't even tell you the source (the LLM).

Dropbox is the same now.

And yes, publishers are going after the companies scraping all this content. Their current T&C make a mockery of their claims of privacy and security. Yes, secured from the public, but they are "ripping off" the content.

Paper books years ago had a clause about machine storage, but Google "won" that dishonestly in the USA courts regarding scanning, and that was wrong and shouldn't apply elsewhere.

These big companies think they are beyond the law.
Ongoing cases variously in USA and EU and UK vs Alphabet/Google, X-Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon (one in USA about recalling illegal and unsafe goods from their marketplace). Criminal, regulatory and civil cases are all ongoing.
New stories every week https://www.theregister.com/

Likely it's now only truly legal to use DropBox or Google Drive for stuff you own the rights on or PD content.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Quoth

ILikely it's now only truly legal to use DropBox or Google Drive for stuff you own the rights on or PD content.

I use Dropbox for storing the backup of my calibre library and I intend to continue to do so. What ongoing cases Dropbox has or has not is not my concern. No one is going to sue tens of thousands of ordinary users who keep their stuff in Dropbox.

As to copyright violation, it's a copyright violation to remove the DRM and keep a copy in Calibre in the first place, as you're making an unauthorized copy. And removing the DRM is illegal in the EU.

[Quoth]

No, clue in name. DRM removal might contravene something, but not copyright.

Deliberately sharing copies is what violates copyright.

Also multiple personal copies of a copyright digital work that are not made public doesn't violate copyright. That's been legally established.

[JSWolf]

If it's illegal to put a copyright eBook that you bought on Google Drive, then it's also illegal to use Send to Kindle to send a copyright eBook that you did not purchase from Amazon.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

No one is going to sue tens of thousands of ordinary users who keep their stuff in Dropbox.

Probably not.
However it's not a backup as the entirety of Dropbox or of Google Drive could be geoblocked by law, or turned off. It's a convenient service that through thoughtless greed, the operator is making illegal (civil law not criminal law). Note to Google, Dropbox etc, criminla violations have fixed maximum tarrifs. Civil infractions have no limit to penalty.

The companies touting LLM AI have been really stupid.