Thread: Desktop App Kobo Desktop discontinued?
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Old 10-11-2025, 02:17 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by McGonigle View Post
From posts on the web I gather that even an old Kobo Touch which is still fully functional today has sync’ing capabilities within its UI so I’m wondering if the desktop software was ever a requirement to perform updates on the reader, or if such updates have always been OTA?
The problem is that the server side software changed and old firmware needed to be updated. If it wasn't updated soon enough, you could not do it OTA. So you either needed to download the current firmware and update manually or use Kobo Desktop to update.
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