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Originally Posted by Quoth
If you have an actual eink Kobo, then you don't ever need the Desktop app. If you want to read epubs without DRM on anything other than eink you don't need it either.
It's not needed if buying ebooks from Kobo shop. The ADE isn't absolutely needed either though is the official way to put epubs with DRM on your Kobo.
Firmware can be downloaded here (which uses links to Kobo)
https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html
I never installed it even when I still used Windows. |
If you have a Kobo with a firmware that's too old and you don't know about downloading newer firmware and/or manually updating, then you do need Kobo Desktop to get your Kobo updated. There are lots of people who don't know this and don't use MR.