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Old 09-01-2011, 03:55 AM   #1
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Two (probably) dumb questions. If I order a Kobo Touch from the US, will there be any problem setting it up and using it here in Qatar, and can I buy Kobo books? I see that Kobo ebooks can be paid for with Paypal, so presumably that won't be a problem. (To buy books for a Kindle here, the reader has to be set up with a proxy address). Thanks, folks.
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Old 09-01-2011, 06:16 AM   #2
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Two (probably) dumb questions. If I order a Kobo Touch from the US, will there be any problem setting it up and using it here in Qatar, and can I buy Kobo books? I see that Kobo ebooks can be paid for with Paypal, so presumably that won't be a problem. (To buy books for a Kindle here, the reader has to be set up with a proxy address). Thanks, folks.
A quick way to check is to go to Kobo.com and see if you have books available to buy. If you do, then you should be fine.
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Great. then there's no physical reason why you can't use the device in Qatar!
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Old 09-07-2011, 02:59 AM   #5
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Two (probably) dumb questions. If I order a Kobo Touch from the US, will there be any problem setting it up and using it here in Qatar, and can I buy Kobo books? I see that Kobo ebooks can be paid for with Paypal, so presumably that won't be a problem. (To buy books for a Kindle here, the reader has to be set up with a proxy address). Thanks, folks.
I have been using my Kobo Touch from Dubai, "next door" to Qatar and have no problems. The same hold true for my kobo reader on my iPad and MacBook.

In essence, all you need is a sufficiently fast WiFi at home or anywhere else and you should be ready to go. As the reader has to establish a connection with the server in North America, synchronization and downloads may take a little longer, but not significantly enough to trouble me.
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Old 09-09-2011, 08:23 AM   #6
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Thanks Beluga. Have ordered a Touch and looking forward to no more expensive postage charges from Amazon UK!
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Thanks Beluga. Have ordered a Touch and looking forward to no more expensive postage charges from Amazon UK!


It should work quite nice.
There are now even German and French books available on kobo, although I would wish that they clean up their user settings so that a user can filter the books that are displayed when the user does a search.

Listing all the other language books together with English makes the search unnecessarily cumbersome.

The kobo hardware may not be quite as easy to use as the kindle 3, but I like they way the kobo presents chapters and paragraphs much better than the kindle. I also note that kobo is constantly working at improving their product and like that.


Hope you will enjoy your kobo...
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Does Kobo really support Arabic? In menu and within the book? that'd be a surprise for me...
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Does Kobo really support Arabic? In menu and within the book? that'd be a surprise for me...
What gave you the idea that kobo might be available in Arabic?
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