Thread: My first week with a Kobo (Clara BW) - some thoughts
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Old 03-16-2025, 04:01 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by rashkae View Post
I don't think getting rid of the home screen (as useless as it might be) is motivation for anyone to enable sideloaded mode. Sideloaded mode simply lets you use your kobo without bothering with adding account login. It also prevents synching with Kobo's cloud account from causing any of the many known side effects. (Battery drain, and the occasional, rare but real database errors that can occur from sync bugs.). If you *only* sideload your own books, there's no reason I can think of to *not* turn on sideloaded mode.
On my reader, I enabled sideloaded mode, and I am logged in. I do always keep wifi off. I may have cleared my wifi connection.

I manage my mom's reader and only sideload on it. The Home screen is enabled. I tend to load several books at a time. The home screen is nice in that it shows the most recent read (so I don't have to remember it).
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