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Old 06-30-2011, 10:40 PM   #240
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet View Post
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As far as I know, Kobo is the only one of the four leading ereaders that supports epub, mobi, pdf DRM free so perhaps we all ought just buy a Kobo Touch to read our favourite Harry Potter.
I don't know if Kobo's decision to limit features on sideloaded books, especially dictionary, is a corporate decision to induce book purchases off kobo ebookstore, but the limitations would severely hinder the educational experience of reading Harry Potter. Imagine if you give HP books to your kid to read, she/he wouldn't be able to look up word definitions to build his/her vocabulary, or highlight to make notes.

In the future, if sideloaded drm-free books are the way to go (i.e. authors sell directly cutting out the middle-man), Kobo would have shot itself in the foot with the sideload limitations. Hope Kobo comes around and removes the limitations on sideloaded contents, seeing how they now let you change fonts on sideloaded contents.

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