Thread: Kindle Voyage replacement poll
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Old 08-30-2018, 06:18 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
I have never evaluated ereaders outside of Kindle. I chose Kindle 9 years ago for the choice of books I want to read. That's still my driving force. So, a question. If I bought a Kobo could I download book from Kinde ad read them on the Kobo without an Calibre manipulation?

Another comment. A seven inch, or 7.8 inch screen would go a long way to eliminating the size and weight difference of the Voyage.
The mobi support in the Kobo firmware dates back to the days of Mobipocket so if you have a mobi file with any of Amazon's extensions, it doesn't look pretty. Given that azw3 seems to be the most popular format and you would need to remove DRM, using calibre to remove DRM and convert to epub is little more effort.

I use calibre server to allow me to access my ebook library from any site I have WiFi access (a bit of port forwarding on my router, enabling SSL on calibre server and using user names and moderately complex passwords for security) and it works rather well. Kovid Goyal rocks!
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