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Originally Posted by Carolineapink
Hi all,
Got a kobo touch last week for my birthday. I've trying to set it up, so I can borrow books from the public library. Can Idownload books using a wireless network. I haven't got a computer. I have got an pad 2. Please can someone help me.
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Can you tell me what Library it is that you are trying to get the book from?
I'm going to take a guess it's one that is using Overdrive to provide the eBooks.
The reason for the guess is that when you click on the link to get the book on the iPad, it'll do various things, depending on what apps you have installed.
An app can advertise that it's able to open a certain type of file, for example, an ePub file. When you tap on a link of that type of file iOS will ask if you want to open it in that app. If no app for that filetype exists then Safari will usually report that cannot read that type of file.
Overdrive seems to have set things up so that their links will explicitly open in their own Overdrive app on iOS if it is installed. This is a little annoying if you want to open the file in an ePub reader other than Overdrive.
Even if that did not happen, you'd still need to get the file into an app that your Touch could access. I'm not sure if Touch supports dropbox (unofficially of course), if it did, then you could try and get the file in dropbox on the iPad, then access the same dropbox from the Touch and open the file.
As others have said, you could try accessing the link to the ePub file directly on the Touch using the browser, which is probably going to be the only way you can get the file without having a computer involved.