[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Alpha o

I far prefer a plain old file tree.

When I looked at those books on the Kobo using windows explorer, there was no file extension. I looked in every file marked Kobo on the computer and saw nothing except stuff that reminded me of dll files or something saying fully parsed. Nothing that could be opened by another reader. No book as far as I was concerned.

I bought the damn book, I should have gotten an epub.

You did get an epub. One of the things that is being discussed in this thread is how to download that epub. You also got a kepub, which is what Kobo uses for their devices and syncing.

Calibre would just read /open the book but would do nothing else with it. Couldn't unlock it or any of them using Obok.

I haven't seen any reports that Obok is not working for several months. As I suggested, check you have the latest version of Obok. If you do, report the error to the developers of Obok. Without being told there is a problem, there is no way they can fix it.

I do read on an Acer tablet at night, and it's easier to go through Dropbox or move the SD card than bother with Kobo reader.

I did get that message about the SD card from Kobo. I put all the books on the SD card rather than the main. It's where I want them. Apparently Kobo doesn't think so.

Someone stated that recently, maybe you, and it didn't agree with my memory. So, I went through the firmware looking for a message like that. There wasn't one. The closest was one about using the SD card for storage if needed. But, as the card is in the device, of course the device will do some management. Pull it out and the device can't touch it. And the device only touches files on the card it puts there. I does not touch sideloaded books except to allow you to read them. If there are non-book files on the device, they are COMPLETELY ignored.

The message about needing wifi just appeared when I took out the password for our wifi.
I usually just turn it off and no remarks, but deleting the account generated the message.

So you removed the WiFi password and the next time you did something that needed WiFi, it asked for the password? Wow, how demanding of the system. I bet that when you didn't supply the password all it said was it couldn't do that function and kept letting you do unimportant things like, say, read a book.

I find a lot of Calibre to be a perfect pain. I am a fanboy of nothing. I simply don't need or care about all the info you can put in. Nor do I care about rewards for how fast or how many books I'm reading. I also don't annotate books. I do annotate how to guides and manuals.

You have the right to be a fanboy, I have the right to say it stinks.

I don't normally consider myself a fanboy of anything. The usual thing I consider myself is someone who uses tools to achieve a purpose. I choose the one that suits me the most. I generally make sure I understand what is going on. That way I can use those tools better. But, sometimes I do decide to not learn and treat it as a black-box.

The other thing is that if I have a problem and ask about it, I actually listen to the answer and try to act on it. And if I make a statement about how something works and someone demonstrates I am wrong, I accept that. I'll probably try and work out why I thought what I did, but that is related to trying to work out how it all works and use it better.

Now, I like calibre and know a lot about how it works and how to use it. I like my Kobo devices. And again, I know a lot about how they work and how to use it to best achieve what I want (just so you know, that is to be able to read). And I haven't seen anything else that would be better for me. If that makes me a fanboy, then I'll have to accept that. And while I assume you mean it as an insult, I can only take it as a compliment.