Thread: Rakuten Kobo Touch Questions
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Old 08-28-2012, 07:42 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
4) No, for activation you need the Kobo desktop software, which is also available for Mac OS X. But if you will only be using Calibre, you don't necessarily have to activate your Kobo I don't think.
There is some instructions here for adding an entry to the Touch's database to fake the activation. But, if you want to buy kepubs from the Kobo shop, it has to be activated properly.
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6) Hmm, I'm not sure if you even need to have a Japanese IP address... From The Netherlands I can only. Rowsw Dutch books (stupid, stupid system!), but I can search and buy English and German books as well. So if you know what book you're looking for a search should be enough even with an IP address from outside of Japan. As for the credit card, I'm not sure. You should be able to use any I'd say, and otherwise PayPal also works...
There has been some discussion about the IP address here. I am pretty sure the Japanese IP was needed. Or I might have it mixed up with someone in Japan who wanted to buy from the non-Japanese shop.
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