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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
I trust Amazon and Kobo aren't going to stop selling ebooks and disappear overnight with no warning.
It doesn't take much longer to strip DRM from 1 book vs. 100. The only annoying thing is that Kindle on PC doesn't have a way to batch download. But when you do it every time you have to go to the PC, log in, do all the steps every time for every book. When it's 10PM and I am in bed and want to read the next book in the series I was reading I don't want to get out of bed and hop on the PC to sideload a book. 2 seconds to hit buy in bed and download vs. 5 minutes to go the PC. And god forbid you need to update Calibre because your Kobo updated and yadda yadda.
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If you want to batch download, you could always set your Kindle for PC as the default device.
Weird way to operate. Are you trying to say you don't know you are near the end of the book? That lack of knowledge keeps you from purchasing a few more books then download. strip DRM, update metadata, edit, etc. and then send the new books to your ereader before going to bed. I will admit that I tend to consider most books to be less than a 2 hour read with the average novel of 90,000 words clocking in at 90 minutes so I may be doing this more often that the average ebook reader.
As for needing to update calibre because your Kobo updated? Simply hit the attempt to support new firmware checkbox and enjoy life. So far, I haven't found any issues with that support in any of the Kobo firmware versions I've loaded onto a Kobo ereader.
I do find it funny that you worry about firmware updates that others are complaining should be more frequent. What has it been? Feb. 2021 for the last public firmware update? And Kobo still supports their earlier ereaders other than the Mini with new firmware.