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Originally Posted by meeera
Since you're choosing to base your advice to others on this one experience: which device, when, where, and what were the problems you encountered with Overdrive borrowing? It's not useful advice unless there are details.
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There are areas in the world where library connections to Overdrive are almost non-existent.
Kobo Overdrive functionality is only available in 12 states - so not in most of them, there you have to use the browser.
I find Kobo's software so dumb that I used an alternative reading app on their devices.
Kobo updates fix - in my experience - 1 till 2 bugs, but between 1 and 4 new ones are added; that's why I gave up my efforts with Kobo about 3 years ago.
On Android, I can use the Libby app or the Overdrive app - 1 touch on the screen and I can read.
Kobo might work well in the US, or Canada - if you don't put any demands on the device.
Here it is .....
And now to my Kobo devices:
- Kobo Touch (without internal SD), which became defective after 2 years and 4 days.
- Kobo Mini, which has broken the case after 2 years and 7 months.
- Kobo Mini, which now still works - with alternative reading software.
- Kobo H2O/1 which let water into the case soon after purchase.
My experience with this brand is extremely bad and I can only advise anyone against it.
On top of that:
- Rakuten created Overdrive.
- Kobo can only do Overdrive since Rakuten bought Kobo.
- However, Rakuten recently gave Overdrive to KKR - an investment firm.
- For now it still works, but how it looks in the future?