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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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I take it you've spent little time in the Kindle forum. No, the folks wanting to load their non-store books over wifi aren't generally willing to tinker, they just want to click on something and have their books automagically appear on their devices. And sync the reading progress. And no, they don't want to install and learn an entire new program (calibre) to do that.
And there are quite a lot of those people. You won't find them in the Kobo forum, because Kobo doesn't offer this feature.