Fontenoy, your new KT is in trouble and you will find plenty of sympathy in being unhappy with Kobo right now. After you read some of the flood of posts in this forum over the last 8 days, particularly at the main thread on firmware 2.0 (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=184373 also
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=184642), you should do a factory reset and make sure you set up your KT with the
previous firmware, 1.9.17 (now current again via the Kobo desktop app).
I'd also advise
avoiding the current version of the popular elibrary management program, Calibre 0.8.60 (download the previous v.0.8.59 at the calibre-ebook.com). And I'd avoid complications by
not registering your device with Adobe, though there are pros and cons in limiting contact with ADE.
I never registered either my wife's Kobo WiFI or my KT with ADE. Authorization is not only not necessary but for privacy protection, not recommended. However, the only way then to deal with the ebooks you buy and have to download via ADE is to strip them of DRM while still resident on your computer (on a PC the files will be found at My Digital Editions), then transfer them as epubs (I use Calibre) to the KT. Viewing, manipulating, moving your books around, etc. will be much simpler without DRM. For some recent posts on DRM, see
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&highlight=DRM
When I wind up with the same title on my KT as both Kobo Kepub and DRM-free ePub, I delete the Kepub. Personally, I don't find any reduced functionality in having little but ePubs on my KT but I understand one can encounter some formatting and font issues.