Thread: overdrive vs Adobe ID
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Old 11-14-2017, 01:44 AM   #11
davidfor
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
so simple - thanks

and very easy for kobo to enable on other models if they ever choose to ?
It is already partly enabled. If you have another device using the same Kobo account, any books borrowed using the Aura ONE or OD will be sent to those devices. And I believe it works to use an Aura ONE to set it up, then sign out of the Kobo account on the Aura ONE.

And yes, Kobo should be able to put this on the other devices fully. I don't know why they don't. I can see a reason to put it on the new device for a while, and I can see a reason not to backfit to the old devices such as the Touch (still surprised they are updating the firmware for these) but it I think it should have been on the Aura H2O Edition 2.
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& I assume that when you boorro with OD, as above, the library puts book into your checked out list so that it becomes loanable by other routes also
Yes, I tested this by borrowing from the library, and downloading via ADE. Then on the next sync it appeared on the device.
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and this works because the overdrive account stores my library credentials
( perhaps with some only one library at a time limitations / )

the "if the book matches a book in the Kobo store" is a limitation though. Could be that my library has some books that Kobo does not have
Yes, that is a limitation and a few people have found some books that Kobo don't have. Or that didn't connect properly. If the latter happens, Kobo can fix it.
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