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Originally Posted by marp68
This made me think. What happens if I am registered and everything works fine, but I have to do a reset or get logged out in a place where I don't have internet connection? I have been out sailing or hiking where there are no connection. Then I will not be able to register again and therefore not read my already sideloaded books or, in case of a reset, sideload them again and continue reading. The obligation to register and be logged in to be able to use the reader for just reading the existing books is a huge mistake.
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I agree that it's a huge mistake, but I don't see Kobo changing that anytime soon. They want people to use the Kobo store as often as possible, and that's the easiest way to make that happen.
That said, in the case of a reset, since you would be side-loading books anyway, that necessarily means you'd have a computer with you. If you had saved the instructions locally, you could go through the process of tricking the Kobo into thinking you'd completed registration (if I recall correctly, it's as simple as using the command line to insert a row into a sqlite3 database table). That would give you the ability to read side-loaded books without registering.