[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by Katel

Hello Mrs_Often and thanks for your reply It's heartening to see how you 'fiercely' like this eReader. And thanks for the link to the other thread which I'm slowly reading through, as much of it is Swahili to me.

But the Shelves feature is sounding hopeful and I like the way they seem to do frequent updates.
Just a couple of questions -
The ADE supporting Epub3 What does ADE mean?

As Davidfor already explained, Adobe Digital Editions. You'll only need this software for your PC if you want to buy ebooks from somewhere other than Kobo, or if you want to borrow ebooks from your library. It gives your devices (like your new Kobo Touch) permission to read the 'locked' (DRM) ebooks.

And side-loading books - does that mean loading from the PC?
So with the Shelves feature does that mean that Calibre or such would not be needed then? [...]Only Calibre sounds rather complicated for someone like me but if it would solve the problem then I'd just have to stumble my way around it.

You only 'have' to sideload and use Calibre if you want to buy books from somewhere else than Kobo, or if you already have a lot of ebooks (not from Kobo). If you're mainly going to buy books from Kobo, you don't have to worry about sideloading or Calibre. Calibre is useful to organise all your (non-Kobo) books on your PC if you have many ebooks. You can compare it to iTunes for instance. It's also useful for doing the actual sideloading, but you don't necessarily need Calibre just to sideload books (as Davidfor said, you can use your KT like a usb-stick and just drag and drop books onto it).

And when new updates come are you notified on the PC?

You're only notified on the PC if you have the Kobo Desktop application running (maybe even also only if you have the Kobo connected to the PC at the same time, I'm not sure, I never do it that way). But the updates also download onto your KT automatically via Wifi during syncs (if/when you switch Wifi on).

I'm so close to buying it and can hardly wait but just checking on a few bits and pieces that I'm not sure about - though I'm sure I'd find that with any ereader being the dummy that I am. .

It's always good to do as much research as you're doing beforehand! And I know how it feels to be so excited!