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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I'm also very privacy conscious, but I didn't mind signing up for an account when I got my first Kobo, it was a very very minor annoyance. But there's no personal details, no billing info, absolutely nothing but the email address, so I don't understand why some are so against it, especially when Kindles require linking to Amazon accounts.
Since you also buy from Kobo and I can understand you not wanting the hassle of double books, but why not just create a 2nd Kobo account for the reader only with a different email address, one you never make a purchase from. That would solve the problem of the double book downloads and end the hassle of trying to keep the reader unregistered.
Like you, I only purchase my books through my PC and sideload all books. Nothing is so urgent I need to download it to my reader right then and there.
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Originally Posted by delph
That's an excellent idea, and I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I have my own domain and generate standalone email addresses for other reasons (also not privacy related). There's no reason not to do so for this as well. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing for several years now. My device email account is not used for purchasing kobo ebooks. I call it my 'dummy account'.
I only ever side load Calibre cleaned ebooks and I've not encountered any problems at all. (And I don't use the device wifi, I don't turn it on so to speak.)
Also, I manually change the firmware version updates, so that's not an issue either.
For some folk a dummy account is not the solution because they want to use kepub formatted ebooks because, for example, they prefer the format or they want to collect stats etc.