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    From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to Tom Browder on Tue Feb 4 20:40:01 2025
    On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM GMT, Tom Browder wrote:
    But, can your Kobo reader handle the Kindle format?

    What model do you recommend?

    Chiming in: I love my Kobo Libra 2, which I think is now discontinued
    and replaced with the Kobo Libra Colour.

    It cannot read the kindle format natively (mobi/azw) but converting from
    one to the other is easy. Calibre (already mentioned) can do it; there's
    also a tool "kepubify" which can improve an ePUB's performance on Kobo readers: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

    Books purchased from Amazon are encrypted with DRM: this can be
    reasonably easily removed with "deDRM" tools that plug into Calibre.

    One thing I like about the Kobo is how hackable it is. I've got
    syncthing on mine, so to add a book to it I merely have to copy the file
    to my local folder, and syncthing does the rest.



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  • From Geert Stappers@21:1/5 to Jonathan Dowland on Tue Feb 4 21:30:02 2025
    On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:34:48PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
    On Tue Feb 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM GMT, Tom Browder wrote:
    But, can your Kobo reader handle the Kindle format?

    What model do you recommend?

    Chiming in: I love my Kobo Libra 2, which I think is now discontinued and replaced with the Kobo Libra Colour.

    It cannot read the kindle format natively (mobi/azw) but converting from one to the other is easy. Calibre (already mentioned) can do it; there's also a tool "kepubify" which can improve an ePUB's performance on Kobo readers: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

    Books purchased from Amazon are encrypted with DRM: this can be reasonably easily removed with "deDRM" tools that plug into Calibre.

    One thing I like about the Kobo is how hackable it is. I've got syncthing on mine, so to add a book to it I merely have to copy the file to my local folder, and syncthing does the rest.


    My experience with KoBo was very short:

    * Unboxed the device
    * Had to read through the "EULA"
    * Saw on with Wireshark that each "next page of EULA" was a "phone home"
    * Put the device back in the original box
    * Got refund (and did buy another "Ebook reader")




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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Jonathan Dowland on Tue Feb 4 21:30:01 2025
    Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]> wrote:

    One thing I like about the Kobo is how hackable it is. I've got
    syncthing on mine, so to add a book to it I merely have to copy the file
    to my local folder, and syncthing does the rest.

    Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my
    Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it?
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  • From Eric S Fraga@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 16:40:01 2025
    Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote:
    (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10)

    Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my
    Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it?

    +1

    Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with Koreader
    as well?

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Eric S Fraga on Wed Feb 5 18:10:01 2025
    Eric S Fraga wrote:
    Response below/inline for email Chris Green wrote:
    (original email sent 4 Feb 2025 at 20:10)

    Now that's neat, I use syncthing on other systems, adding it to my
    Kobo Forma would be really handy, how do you do it?

    +1

    Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with Koreader
    as well?

    Koreader is happy to read from the filesystem, so sure.

    But what I have setup is a combo of two things:

    - an OPDS server to hand out books
    - a kosync server to keep bookmarks in sync across Koreader
    instances (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone)

    -dsr-

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  • From Eric S Fraga@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 10:50:01 2025
    Response below/inline for email Dan Ritter wrote:
    (original email sent 5 Feb 2025 at 11:47)

    Koreader is happy to read from the filesystem, so sure.

    But what I have setup is a combo of two things:

    - an OPDS server to hand out books

    Thank you for this. I used to use calibre as an OPDS server but had
    forgotten about that capability. OPDS works very well for me with
    koreader. I don't need syncing as such, just the capability to easily
    download books to my ereader.

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  • From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to Eric S Fraga on Thu Feb 6 19:00:01 2025
    On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM GMT, Eric S Fraga wrote:
    Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with
    Koreader as well?

    It does, yes.

    I followed the following blog post:

    <https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/>


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  • From Eric S Fraga@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 7 10:30:01 2025
    Response below/inline for email Jonathan Dowland wrote:
    (original email sent 6 Feb 2025 at 17:52)

    On Wed Feb 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM GMT, Eric S Fraga wrote:
    Sounds great. I would love to have this. Would this work with
    Koreader as well?

    It does, yes.

    I followed the following blog post:

    <https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/>

    Thank you for the link. That's an excellent blog post.

    I'm actually finding that using calibre as an OPDS works for me. I'd
    forgotten about that feature of calibre. :-)

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