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Originally Posted by DHR
I just tried a Project Gutenberg epub book from the Kobo Vox web browser -- download failed. Same story for Baen Free Library. Surely some kind of stupidity on the Kobo end. No trouble with my Firefox on Linux browser though (only tried Gutenberg).
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
maybe not. The Kobo Vox has a browser that does not let you download. I don't think it has anything to do with stupidity but intentional not allowing to "side load" through a web page. Gutenberg (mobile site m.gutenberg.org and normal www.gutenberg.org) works both on my Odyssey (just tried). Downloading puts it right into my library on the reader. |
Well, I call that stupidity. It is probably intentional stupidity: makes it more awkward to get stuff from anywhere but Kobo.
I would guess that the browser is GPLed and hence open sourced. So I guess we could fix it. Or create another application to do the job (though running a distinct application is one more step).
Maybe, for safety, we'd need to have a facility to limit downloads to approved-by-the-user sites and file types.