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Old 06-16-2018, 03:05 AM   #561
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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer View Post
The thing is, Kobo's parent company, Rakuten, OWNS Overdrive (and has for over two years). It's crazy that they don't deploy integration with it across their ebook-reader line.

https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/0...res-overdrive/


Overdrive isn't very popular on the east side of the North Atlantic though. UK libraries started using it a while back but have since then moved over to BorrowBox instead. The Netherlands has their own "online library" and has ignored Overdrive completely. Germany did get Overdrive in 2015 I think but I don't know if it caught on and/or if it's still used. I don't know about other European countries but I never hear/see Overdrive mentioned around "here"...

Having said that, since direct integration with Overdrive was already built into the firmware for the [I can't remember which Kobo device and I'm too lazy to look it up], it really doesn't make sense to not have the integration in the other Kobo devices as far as I can see...
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