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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
How well does Calibre work with no cable to sync the device? Or if your Kobo and Calibre versions get out of sync with no internet while travelling? I feel like those are all about as likely as one of the cloud services having meaningful downtime.
Calibre IMO is a PITA. There's some useful plugins for it, but I hate sideloading books. I hate fiddling with conversion settings, I hate that it doesn't work properly with Japanese books with an English interface.
I recently picked up a Boox Nova 2. It's great that I can buy a book off Amazon or Kobo and just read and not have to download the book to my PC, make sure the desktop clients are all the right version, etc. I just download the book. It's great.
I still periodically backup my books, but it's nice not to have to do that with every purchase (or every purcahse on a another store anyways).
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Given that you mention you buy books from Kobo and you own a Kobo, you could easily "buy a book off Kobo and just read and not have to download the book to your PC, make sure the desktop clients are all the right version, etc. You just download the book."