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When you've bought a new Kobo book, you can add it to your glo just by syncing it with Kobo via wifi. There's no need for Kobo Desktop connection at all. Firmware updates are all over-the-air now too, again no Kobo Desktop required.

Alternatively you could download the Kobo book on your computer from a browser window: after you buy the book, it will usually* have a "Adobe DRM EPUB" download button. Download the book using Adobe Digital Editions. Then you have two choices:
- use Adobe Digital Editions to load the book onto your Kobo via USB cable (Kobo Desktop is not involved at all);
- or use Apprentice Alf plugins (google it, we can't give you detail here) while importing your book into Calibre. The DRM will be stripped, and you can load the book into Calibre as usual.


* The asterisk is needed, as some Kobo books have no downloadable EPUB, unfortunately. In this case, you have two choices:
- wifi sync your Kobo, and the book will automatically download to your Kobo;
- or use Kobo Desktop to download the books, then use the [deleted] plugin for Calibre (again, no details, search here and google for more) to strip the DRM and make the book suitable to sideload across.