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Originally Posted by robko
Please explain this difference to me. I assume you have to have an Amazon account to purchase a book from Amazon, the same as you do from Kobo? You can download the straight epub version of most books purchased from Kobo and sideload them otherwise independent of all things Kobo. Or you can get an epub from somewhere other than Kobo and sideload it directly. So I'm not understanding how Kobo and Amazon could be considered any different in this respect.
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You can't even setup your Kobo when you first purchase it without having a Kobo account. It has nothing to do with purchasing books from Kobo or not. You're prompted to connect to Kobo either through USB to the PC Kobo Desktop program, or via wi-fi. If you don't connect to Kobo, you can't set up the reader, you can't sideload books, you can't read, period.
There is a hack to get around it I believe, but most people just want to read and not have to install things on their reader when they first get it just to get it setup and working.