03-17-2022, 02:09 PM | #1 |
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Potential Libra 2 Purchase
After reading that Amazon are possibly phasing out Transfer Via USB, I took a look at Kobo ereaders and fell in love with the form factor of the Libra 2.
Things I love about it: The form factor. Its squarer shape and the buttons. The gyroscope. I'm often switching between portrait and landscape mode. On my kindles, this involves faffing about with the page settings. I like the way turning the Libra 2 changes the mode for me. The warm light. It appears much better than when I tried a Clara HD a few years ago. Had to send this back due to significant light bleed and bright spots. Does anyone know if the Libra 2 has this problem? I haven't found any info about this. Can I use the Libra 2 on permanent aeroplane mode? I don't have wifi (by choice) so need to download books to my laptop. I also need to be able to register the device without wifi. There's a possibility someone who lives over the road from me might let me use his wifi for registration, but he's been a hypochondriac since covid and hates having anyone in his house! Does the battery hold its charge well? When I'm really into a book I read for two or three hours a day but don't like having to charge the battery every few days. My PW3 is beginning to lose charge even when sleeping, and its not indexing. Is the Kobo site full of good cheap books? Do they often have freebies? Can I download them to my laptop to sideload? Do you manage, while transfer via usb is available, to use Calibre and Alf to put books bought from Amazon onto a Libra 2? After watching several videos, I really like the Libra 2, but I'm apprehensive after my experience with the Clara HD (this was a while ago, things may have changed.) |
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Yes, it is easy to convert Amazon eBooks to ePub and read them with a Kobo. If Amazon was to take away Transfer & Install via USB, you could use an older version of the Kindle App for your computer to download KF8 eBooks from Amazon. What you need is the DeDRM plugin and Calibre to strip the DRM from Kindle eBooks and then you can convert and read on a Kobo. It's not difficult to get the DeDRM plugin and configure it to remove DRM from ePub and Kindle eBooks. Quote:
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03-17-2022, 04:09 PM | #3 |
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My original Libra has had WiFi off a LONG time. Maybe nearly 2 years!
Ver 4.21.15012 Date 2020-05-13 2714 books 3G memory in use. I've never bought a book off Kobo. |
03-17-2022, 04:12 PM | #4 |
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My H2O (no long over 6 years) has had the WiFi off most of the time and my Libra 2 the same. The only time I've really used WiFi was to update KOReader.
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I have used transfer via USB a couple of times but at this time, I'm still using K4PC with the batch file to block KFX downloads. That solution may be an issue soon since the latest K4PC (1.35) breaks the batch file. |
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03-17-2022, 04:48 PM | #6 |
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03-17-2022, 05:09 PM | #7 |
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Yes, I use a powerline connection. The computer is Windows 7. I hope the Kobo desktop app will still run on this, because Kindle 4 PC doesn't.
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03-17-2022, 05:14 PM | #8 |
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ADE confuses me. What does it do? I haven't heard of ACSM before, though I'm familiar with DRM. Will Alf deal with ACSM?
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03-17-2022, 05:27 PM | #9 |
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Thanks everyone for the help. I think I'm going to take the plunge and iron out the wrinkles as I go along. I might be popping by to ask for help.
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03-17-2022, 06:01 PM | #12 |
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It sounds complicated, but I'm sure this will all become clear.
I've bought the Libra 2 from the Kobo site. Hopefully it won't take long to arrive. Looking forward to reading on my new toy. |
03-17-2022, 07:50 PM | #13 |
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A word of warning. The latest Kobo update (4.31) is rather buggy, especially with sideloading. Fortunately you can downgrade a Kobo device to a previous firmware version, unlike a Kindle.
I won't go into details right now, but if you experience freezing, rebooting, corrupted database and so on, let us know and we'll instruct how to downgrade. Of course it's possible Kobo will have released a fix by then, but we have been waiting for it a while now... |
03-17-2022, 08:42 PM | #14 |
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Basically, when you buy an epub from any store, when you download it, you will either get the epub directly without any DRM or you get the ACSM file.
For the epub, you can just put it on the device. For the ACSM file, you just let ADE handle it and it will download the epub. Then, ADE can let you read the book or put it on the device. Just about everything else mentioned about this is something that isn't needed. You can do this with ADE or manually with no problems. Using calibre is a good idea if your library is large, but, it is not necessary. And I always recommend using the new device for a bit to get used to it and deciding what you do and don't like and then what you want to change. Quote:
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