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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I'm like Katsunami, except his exact opposite. I have a Kobo reader (he has a Kindle), and I have bought only 5 books (could be 6) at Kobo so far (and dozens at Amazon). I find them more expensive! Which is weird, as we both live in the same country :P
Plus, I find cleaning books from amazon a lot easier than kobo, I wouldn't even know where to start with epubs... (the only books I've bought at Kobo so far didn't have DRM).
Edit: and I've never seen one coupon from Kobo... And the only books they ever put on sale are Dutch
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For EPUB's, you install Adobe Digital Editions version 2.01 (and only that one). It's basically the generic counterpart of Kindle for PC and Kobo Desktop.
Then you buy a book at Kobo. You get an ASCM file, which basically is a download key. You drop that into ADE, and it downloads the book. From there on, you import it into calibre, and if you have installed Alf's tools correctly, the file will be cleaned.
Find the Kobo coupons thread in this forum. If a multi-use coupon is there, you can buy lots of books at good discounts. In the past, Kobo released a huge amount of 50-90% (!) multi-use coupons, and that's why I have so many books. Also, a lot of books I read are not published by one of the Big Five (such as the Forgotten Realms), and there you stand a bigger chance of a coupon working.
I never buy anything in Dutch, because everything I ever wanted to read in Dutch is already in the public domain. I'm not interested in original fantasy written in Dutch. I find that it doesn't work. If I write something myself, I write it English as well.