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Originally Posted by stumped
Everybody but kobo has jumped on the digital family subscription idea, Spotify. Apple, Google, Amazon...
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Actually, Kobo did have the ability to add a child to your Kobo account with the usual limits on what they could view. After their trial period, the interest was not high enough to justify continuing and they discontinued Kobo Kids' accounts on 2018-Apr-03.
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Originally Posted by stumped
But the thought of a "kobo quality" implementation is scary. Probably safer to diy it with the relevent de DRM tools. Even their simple library loan idea seems bogged down in having to have the correct flavour of Adobe id,and having to do things in a certain sequence, though Adobe probably deserves some of the blame for lack of compatibility across all their versions
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What the heck does an Adobe ID have to do with borrowing directly from an Overdrive library on your Kobo device using it's Overdrive integration? The direct library loans do not have Adobe DRM and you do not need to have an Adobe ID. The only issue I have seen is where the ebook versions in the library's collection and in Kobo's store are different -- easily seen by checking the ISBNs if a book does not sync. I also wonder about "flavours" of Adobe ID. Is there an umami flavoured Adobe ID?
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Originally Posted by stumped
Paper books have always been a natural " friends and family share" , more so than music. The limitation that there can only be one reader at a time is not a problem. Others bad habits of dog earing pages and spine bending was probably the most off putting factor of book sharing
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I think I lent more records, cassette tapes and CDs to friends and family that I have ever lent books -- I even remember getting a few back.
To quote Maurice Switzer: “
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”