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Originally Posted by John F
But the other end is a standard USB connector. Do you have any wallwarts that take a standard USB connector?
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No idea what a wallwart is. But yeah I can sort it out - I wasn't really asking for solutions, just information.
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I recall from the Kobo forum that the Mobi support is limited. You would probably want to use Calibre to convert from Mobi to Epub.
An RTF file I tried had a lot of indenting and different font sizes, the result on the Kobo was not pretty.
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Yeah, again, just info-gathering. All my current ebooks are epub, not mobi, but there are some authors I read who are tending to release their stuff in mobi format only (bowing to the almighty Amazon) but without DRM, so people can do their own translation, which in many cases in my experience seems to degrade the formatting. So I was wondering if Kobo claiming it supported mobi format was really just a qualified "maybe". (Sounds like it is.)
I've got a little experience of Calibre, but don't like it much myself (such as the way it restructures and renames your collection), so I don't use it.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I have no problem with the cable for my KT - the standard USB end plugs in to either the computer or the wall charger I use for my iPod, and I'm in Australia. So if the Kobo Vox has a different charger, maybe that is what you were shown.
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No, I didn't say I had a problem with it - just that it's different from the connection type used by all other USB-powered devices I have. It's just one item on the evaluation checklist, but for me it's a tick in the negative column to have to have a new set of cables or chargers.
Anyway, thanks for your replies. I've been holding out hope for a decent, all-round device that
isn't primarily designed to channel people into a particular retail source, but it sounds like Kobo is moving strongly in that direction. From reviews I've seen on YouTube, a lot of its features seem only to work with epubs bought from Kobo itself, and not with those from other sources. For my purposes, that's disappointing.