Kobos Without Computers
Hi! I'm wondering how many of you are living in a computerless world and how you all might manage Kobo without one. What I'd really like to set-up is the ability to send all ebook content to a Kobo by only using a mobile device. (I'll manage deleting books directly from Kobo)
My grandmother has an old old Win 7 pc and I'm officially going to retire the computer and just replace it with an iPad as that works for her (she can actually use the damn thing). That will leave her with three total devices: iPhone, iPad, Kobo Aura H2O.
She reads a ton of books from Kobo bookstore, libraries and shared from my Calibre over Calibre-Web.
Here is my use case for using these services on iOS and getting books onto her Kobo. I'm hoping someone can help me with OverDrive and Calibre-Web.
1. Kobo Bookstore: this one is easy - I'll log her into the iOS app, she buys a book, hits sync on the Kobo, the book shows up.
2. OverDrive: I haven't used a Kobo for awhile, but I hear OverDrive now will sync the accounts. So, she browses her library, checks out a book, hits sync on the Kobo, the book shows up.
Question: she has three library cards - will OverDrive on iOS/Kobo support multiple lending libraries somehow?
3. Calibre-Web: This one is hard. Calibre-Web has a "Send to Kindle" option that lets me email a book directly to my device from any other browser. Kobo doesn't have that. Using the built-in browser on the Kobo with Calibre-Web is very difficult for me - nearly impossible for my grandmother.
Question: Working from iOS, can I download a book from the site, add to Kobo app, hit sync on the Kobo, the book shows up? Is there any way to make this work?
Honestly, I'd get her a new Kindle, but there are so few .mobi options from the libraries that it makes the Kindle a non-starter.
Thank you all for any help or suggestions!
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