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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
With free books, it's pretty much a toss-up. With paid books, not so much, at least in my experience. Baen is a notable exception, but they've put deliberate effort into that for several years. I've found it easier to get paid EPUBs from a non-Kobo source than paid MOBI/AZW books from a non-Amazon source.
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Having a Kindle certainly doesn't restrict one to only buying Mobi books. I buy quite a few ePub books (because "BooksOnBoard" frequently have better prices during their sales than Amazon do). Converting books from ePub to KF8 format using Calibre is trivial.
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I disagree, rather strongly. That extra step of having to have a network connection and involve your email account seriously turns me off.
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You don't HAVE to do it that way - that's merely one of many ways to get books onto a Kindle. Personally I just copy the books via USB.
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There is an argument to be made there, in that the Nook should read anything the Kobo can plus provide access to the B&N store. However, the original poster was asking about Kobo vs. Kindle, and didn't even consider the Nook as an option. Perhaps he is, like I am, reading the news about B&N possibly shedding the Nook hardware as being a bad sign for that platform.
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Do you not think it more likely that, since he is in Australia, he's not considering the Nook for the rather more obvious reason that B&N don't sell to Australia?