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Originally Posted by ohIdon'tknow
My biggest worry for the future of calibre is the lockdown of sideloading. In my cynical imagination I can see someone at Amazon and Rakuten proposing a restriction on sideloading. Fixing it so the usb port is for power only. Their rationale being that they are losing e-book sales to rival stores or public libraries. At that point calibre could be largely redundant for most people.
While there's a good chance that none of that will happen, it might be worth some of the people behind calibre considering a long-term backup plan.
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You could still use the device browser to download your calibre books via wifi. Unless they'll disable the browser too.
For Amazon, it's not impossible they'd do something like that. For Kobo, I don't think so. A large part of Kobo users use their devices to read library books. If Kobo no longer allowed that, those folks would just buy some other device, not a Kobo reader.