I'm in the UK. I haven't had any emails from Kobo yet but I have connected 2 of my devices to Kobo Desktop (Windows 11) to see if anything happened.
One of the devices (AuraOne) is on Kobo's list and the other (Libra2) isn't. Both have been on fw 4.35.20400 since Dec 2022.
After the connection to Kobo Desktop I saw similar results for both devices:
- Both devices remained on fw 4.35.20400.
- Both devices had updated the Kobo database version (DbVersion table in KoboReader.sqlite) from 171 to 174
- Both had a few changes to the config file, Kobo eReader.conf, in the [OneStoreServices] section. To summarise ...
Before:
Code:
kobo_subscriptions_enabled=False
purchase_buy_templated=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/checkout/createpurchase/{ProductId}
sign_in_page="https://authorize.kobo.com/signin?returnUrl=http://kobo.com/"
subs_landing_page=
subs_management_page=
subs_plans_page=
subs_purchase_buy_templated=
After:
Code:
googledrive_link_account_start=
kobo_googledrive_link_account_enabled=False
kobo_subscriptions_enabled=True
purchase_buy_templated=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/checkoutoption/{ProductId}
sign_in_page=https://auth.kobobooks.com/ActivateOnWeb
subs_landing_page=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/plus
subs_management_page=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/account/subscriptions
subs_plans_page=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/plus/plans
subs_purchase_buy_templated=https://www.kobo.com/{region}/{language}/Checkout/CreatePurchase/{ProductId}/{TierId}
As you can see, quite a lot of the changes appear to be KoboPlus-related, presumably because it's recently become available in the UK. I don't have a subscription. These are probably irrelevant to Kobo's email.
It looks like we might be getting a GoogleDrive option soon. With my kobopatch hat on, I've also seen signs of a couple of new widgets that look to be GoogleDrive-related in the nickel CSS code contained in fw 4.36.21095 which, so far, is only for the new Elipsa2E. However, the nickel CSS didn't appear to be restricted to only the Elipsa2E.
Which leaves the changes to the URLs for
sign_in_page and
purchase_buy_templated. I wonder if the former is relevant to Kobo's email?
