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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'd not buy DRMed ebooks from Kobo:
Though Rakuten's Viber does have a Linux version.
Also I don't want books locked to one brand of ereader, or a particular instance.
Sometimes Amazon is the only alternative to Smashwords. Because the Big 5 publishers have lost the plot, at least currently, when you can download to PC and can use the registered Kindle's serial number in Calibre.
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Odd. Kobo's DRMed books can either be downloaded from their web site and fed through ADE or they can be synced to a Kobo ereader or app. If you use the Kobo Desktop application on PC or Mac, you can use OBOK to remove DRM. As usual, once they are in calibre, conversion and sending to an ereader is trivial.
So I fail to see where you are locked to one brand of ereader or "particular instance" by purchasing from Kobo.
I do wonder about mentioning Linux and then continuing on to mention using the Kindle app since there is no Kindle app for Linux which makes your download to PC and use the registered serial number for removing DRM a bit useless. Admittedly, my experience using Kindle for PC/Wine was not very positive so I do not consider it a viable workaround.