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Old 07-09-2018, 05:56 AM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
NB is a specific feature of that flagship model e reader ONLY.

AFAIK you cannot do that on any other Kobo
also, various workarounds have been tried using browsers on e-ink devices but don't work

so if you have an e-ink Kobo, which is not an Aura ONE, you have to use a PC as an intermediate device to license and move the epub.
And where in my post did I say anything else? I was responding to a post that asked if there was another way to do something, so I told them. Unfortunately, it currently requires a specific device. But, we live in hope that Kobo comes to their senses and adds this to other devices.
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If you have an e-ink device which also runs android apps, then you may be able to install libby, from google play store, but books borrowed via libby have to be read in libby- you can't opt to read them in a different app on your device.

That's not too bad - libby has features to let you tweak how it looks and behaves, as a reader. I use the custom preferences, with maximum line height, & 2 pages in landscape mode layout. It syncs well between my different tablets
Whereas your solution requires the user to have e-ink device that runs Android at a version that is capable of running Libby. I'm not sure which of us is limiting the device choice more.
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