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Thank you all for your patience.

Butt... there's always a butt. I have a message for Kobo and all institutions that place DRM on a product which one pays royalties on.
It seems absurd that the buyer is punished via restrictions upon the product with little to no thought that the user may have multiple devices, please indulge me for a few minutes with my story.

I was a HiFi nut and avid collector of music, my vinyl record collection was vast, then along came CD's, I liked the fidelity of CD's especially for classical music so I started replacing my Vinyl collection with the same CD versions, about halfway through the replacement process, out the blue, I was struck by a stunning revelation, I was paying royalties TWICE for the same product, it literally stopped me in my tracks, why the fvck must I pay again for the same product, money for jam. it absolutely infuriated me that I was paying royalties twice, and not even a simple "thank you for buying our product twice" from the music industry either. Needles to say I found everything I wanted in Flac DRM-less and free of charge. Now I only pay for Indie music, or anything new that wasn't in my paid for twice collection.

Its the same reason I stopped buying VHS/CD movies for I realised that if the format changes I would have to buy the same product without any recognition of having already paid royalties for the product.

To all the greedy Royalty mafias, there's a scene in the movie "HEAT" where de Nero asks John Voight "how do you get this information", Voight replies "everything is in the air you just have to know how to grab it".