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Old 12-20-2020, 06:52 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by RodRiquez View Post
Thanks David.

I saw that the browser was quite poor & hidden away in the 'beta' menu - so I began to consider compromising that requirement & instead doing as advised & downloading onto computer & syncing from there.
As far as I can tell, none of the ereaders have full-featured browsers. Part of this is because the devices are low-powered and probably couldn't run a current browser. And they are very much an extra, not core function. Kobo has it in the "Beta features" and on the Kindle, it is labelled as "experimental".
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I've spent most of the day checking out the various ebook software & all it's rather a minefield of incompatibility isn't it! The official apps are so egregious they are effectively useless.

Kindle's Desktop App was a bit of a nightmare to even work out how to open a .mobi file as there were no buttons or options to open or import a file - when it finally worked the app crashed & now crashes every time - apparently they have recently removed that ability, & I have managed to 'brick it' first attempt! In the trash with it!

Kobo App is similarly poor. I got a free ebook from the store & that was fine, but it seems you can't use it for your own books so it's worthless as any kind of desktop library. Although it looks nice enough, I would love to use it if it were capable.
Both applications are only for managing books from their stores. Neither company have any tools for sideloading books. The manual for Kobo explains how to sideload books source elsewhere. I don't know what Amazon says for the Kindle.
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Caibre, well... It may have the functionality, but it looks like some ugly cousin of Windows XP that has been locked in the attic for 20 years. Opening an ebook & reading it was awful & very slow - I wouldn't want to use this as any kind of desktop reading software. In fact if I never see that interface again I will be all the happier - Although to be fair I am stuck with version 3 because they dropped support for my Desktop OS. (High Sierra)
And my viewpoint is the opposite. I thank god Kovid hasn't jumped on one of the "modern" interface bandwagons.

As the the version you can use, unfortunately, some of the libraries calibre uses have been updated and do not support older OSes. That does cause some problems supporting newer devices. Some of which can be worked around if there is enough interest.
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