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Originally Posted by tdonline
Booky, MGlitch and Ikmiller, thank you for your informative responses--they fully answered my questions.
I have one more I forgot to include--on Kindle I can hold onto a library book a little past the expiration date by turning off wifi. Will this trick work on Kobo and OD books?
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Depends on what you mean by a little past...minutes, hours, days?
Definitely, if I have the book open and am reading it, I don't get a "book expired message" right on time...But if you try to open a book, it won't work. If the ereader is just asleep, and woken up with the book open, it sometimes will work for awhile longer. I *think* that something to do with passing a new chapter, can trigger it to find out it is expired, but it might be more, if you try to jump around a book, it will realise it's already expired.
I haven't done this lately, and I'm not 100% sure if it works with kepub (ie direct download on the device), but it definitely used to work with ADE sideloaded OD books. If you just go into the menu and change the date and time (works better/more reliably if you do this BEFORE the book has expired) to be earlier in the loan period (but not before the loan started), then you can keep reading til you finish the book. I used to do this quite often, as I would read on the day it was due and not quite manage to get it done in time. I have even done this for several days when I didn't get it done in time, and there was a long wait-list to renew the book.
For all these tricks, the wifi should be off, or it will likely trigger the expired message.
Edit: oh and if you do the last trick, remember to change the date/time back when you're done....otherwise, you can get a bit weird behaviour. And while you have it changed, the "right" book cover might not show/it might not show the right book as "most recent". Only really noticeable if you read multiple books at once though.