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Originally Posted by Sirtel
There are many, many people who don't want to mess with USB cables and prefer to load their books over wifi. For example, in many cases it's the main reason why folks aren't going to switch from Kindle to Kobo - Amazon has their Send to Kindle feature for non-Amazon books, while Kobo has nothing of the sort (yes, they have Dropbox integration, but it's only for certain models and doesn't sync the reading progress). Calibre-Web/Kobo Sync is somewhat complicated to set up and you need to be a calibre user in the first place.
While you personally may not need this (and for that matter, I don't either) there are a lot of folks who do want such a feature.
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Trading security for convenience is the province of fools.
While I’ll buy there are plenty of people who don’t want to mess with a USB cable, the number who then also want to load books on their devices not from the built in store drops of dramatically. And the remaining number tend towards being more willing to tinker around with technology and learn to use it.
The argument of them having to be a calibre user in the first place is irrelevant, it’s no harder to download Calibre and load books into it than it is to get even the easier version of what’s on offer here going. Arguably setting up the basics of Calibre is easier. And once you move away from the security concerns of hosting your books on someone else’s server and start down the DIY path it’s going to become harder than setting up Calibre web and the other options.