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Originally Posted by davidfor
There are effectively three types of content:
- kepubs purchased from Kobo and download directly to the device. These are linked to your Kobo account. If you sign out, they disappear. I haven't tried it, but I think if you change the user table as has been discussed, the books will still be there, but won't open.
- Sideloaded with DRM. For these to be readable, you need to authorise the device using ADE. Signing out of the Kobo account will remove the authorisation. The books will still be on the device, but will not be readable until you authorise the device with the same Adobe account.
- Sideloaded without DRM. There will be no problems with these.
What the best thing to do depends on what you want your parents to see. If you leave it logged in, they will see all your books. If you want to buy them a book, buy it under your account and have them sync.
You can also create a Kobo account for them. With that, they don't see your purchased books, and have to buy their own.
If you fake it in the database, they won't be able to buy and download books from Kobo, so all books have to be sideloaded
For all three methods, you can sideload books. You can also authorise the devices for Adobe and sideload DRM books.
I'm not sure which is the best option. The first is the simplest, but they get to see what you read. The other two are pretty much the same, but them having a real Kobo account might be more flexible (allows them to buy books). The last means you dump a pile of books on the device and forget about it until they have read them all.
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Thank you for your very complete and informative answer!
I think that they'll mainly sideload older ePubs from Gutenberg and similar websites (they just read older books / classics), but I prefer the flexibility so I'll keep it as it is, apart from restoring nickel / getting rid of koreader + KSM.