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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I specifically did NOT sign up with a Kobo account just because of this. I knew I could sideload books easily from Calibre and had no need of Kobo's control. Right now I have about 350 books loaded onto the reader, which will keep me going for the next year or so. I'm sure I'll add a few more when my favorite authors put out new work, but those too will get sideloaded. I won't allow a company, be it Kobo, Amazon, or even Microsoft dictate what upgrades or changes will be made on any of my devices. I've found life is simpler that way.
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yes but consider a normal user, not particularly computer literate who simply wants to read books and buy them using the device: this person is bound to be "victim" of firmware updates. My bet is that there are loads of these types of users (admittedly based on a very unrepresentative poll of the people I know, though I know many people
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