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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
After initial set up, I never put a kobo device back on the internet, I just use the cord into the laptop to update the firmware, and access calibre.
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Same here. I have a few patches installed on my KA1, so I definitely don't want the reader updating without my knowledge. I also don't want to pull in a few hundred books I have on my (Dutch) Kobo account.
So if I get a new Kobo, I set it up on a (Dutch) dummy account that has one free/public domain book in it, so I can see if everything works. After the reader is set up, I clean it up, and disconnect it from the internet forever. I also always keep the reader's current firmware when upgrading (which I do manually), because Kobo is known to break things.
I'd love to have an open source e-reader running Linux and a good e-book reader, but I don't think the FSF means that. I think they mean the software only, when they speak about an "e-reader", or I'm missing something. That would be useless; there are already several very good open source programs that can read all kinds of e-books, calibre among them.