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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Sorry, but your advice is not going to work. You need to create an account in order to buy eBooks. You cannot get away from doing that. So use that account to register as Kobo already has your information.
Amazon, Kobo, Google, eBooks.com, Smashwords, Baen, Apple, and others all need to have a valid account to be able to buy eBooks.
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Originally Posted by Odessa
How to make sure Kobo and Adobe have as little information as possible on what I do ?
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The answer here is to not register with Kobo at all. Not even to buy books.
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Originally Posted by Odessa
How to make sure I can still read my paid-for books if Kobo disappears or closes my account ?
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Refusing to give Kobo access to the system will ensure that Kobo doesn't delete paid-for books. It's easy to transfer books paid for on other platforms. Odessa is familiar with Calibre.
To meet these conditions, the solution I mentioned will work. There is no requirement for an individual to buy books from Kobo, which has a suboptimal privacy policy. Unfortunately, I don't know of an ebook vendor with anything like a reasonable policy. The best option, I'd say, is going to be buying from indie ebook sellers (booshop.org, etc) or directly from the publisher. Smaller outfits won't be as clever with your data.