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Originally Posted by tpw
I hate the kobo/borders app, but do occasionally buy books from Borders as downloadable DRM epubs. It's trivial to deDRM them, and once in calibre you can easily change formatting, margins, the cover etc etc.
I have no problem buying books, but once I do they're mine, no DRM.
I hesitate to go to the "dark side" but the unfortunate truth is that it's easier to do that than to do the right thing. Sigh.
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All that is true.
However, if all you want to do is buy the book from the Kobo bookstore and read it on the Kobo eReader, then the Kobo app is the way to go.
Personally, I surf the Kobo bookstore with Firefox and do the purchasing that way. When you use a regular browser, you can add the books to your "Library" before buying them so you can build a "wish list". I've given up on using the Kobo app to surf the store.
After that I just boot up the Kobo app, sync it with the store and then sync it with the Kobo reader. Then I shut it down again. Pretty painless.