The other thing with the Kobo's goes way back to when they first came out. If you had it connected to USB is assumed you were interacting with it via the USB (i.e. sideloading books) so you couldn't read on it. People complained loudly (and justifiably) that that meant they couldn't read while the device was charging. So the extra step to have to press to connect (or "cancel" connecting) was added so you could plug it in and still be able to read. The Kobo doesn't let you both be connected and read at the same time because then you'd have 2 possible methods of interacting with the database at the same time and that could get messy quickly.
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