Kobo Plus now available in US & UK

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Lys

From their FAQ: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/plus

So it's a forced WiFi on. Oh well.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is Kobo Plus doing the same count the pages as Amazon? That to me is forcing us to have WiFi on.

Not absolutely certain but one author mentioned something about minutes read but was unclear as to whether that was ebooks or audiobooks. I thought it was audiobooks since reading speed would play greatly into the minutes needed for an ebook.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So it's a forced WiFi on. Oh well.

Just use regular library and buy ebooks or get PD ebooks.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So it's a forced WiFi on. Oh well.

If you're interested in Kobo Plus, I don't understand the horror at switching WiFi on once in a while.

I leave mine off all the time and I won't be using Kobo Plus. But, if I were otherwise interested in it, turning on WiFi for a few minutes every couple of weeks doesn't seem like it is asking too much.

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you download Kobo Plus eBooks and side load them?

I don’t know. Haven’t tried it yet. I can say that it doesn’t work with Obok. When I was backing up some purchases last night, I noticed my Kobo Plus books all had green, open locks. Those are usually reserved for non DRM books or when books are open in the desktop app database still. As I suspected, the book can’t be stripped of DRM, which is a good thing, TBH. Kobo Plus can’t succeed if it encourages rampant piracy. Sure, that might encourage people to sign up, but publishers would pull out.

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by Lys

From their FAQ: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/plus

Great find! Thanks for sharing!!

[Cootey]

Kobo Plus works on my Kobo Mini running FW 4.19.14123, which was a nice surprise.

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

If you're interested in Kobo Plus, I don't understand the horror at switching WiFi on once in a while.

I leave mine off all the time and I won't be using Kobo Plus. But, if I were otherwise interested in it, turning on WiFi for a few minutes every couple of weeks doesn't seem like it is asking too much.

I agree. I respect ppl’s right to live life their own way, but I don’t really get the hangup on WiFi that is so popular around here. Maybe it’s a legacy thing.

I leave my WiFi on all the time, too. Things sync even while asleep. I’ve come to rely on the convenience since I move between my Clara HD, my Elipsa, and my iOS Kobo apps.

With Kobo Plus it’s vital. If I borrow a book and a comic using a desktop browser, the book is available immediately on my Clara HD, and the comic is available immediately on my Elipsa and iPad, where I prefer to read comics and manga. I don’t even have to manually sync. It’s a nice convenience.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So it's a forced WiFi on. Oh well.

It’s a forced sync every 30 days. Why are you so paranoid against it? I and millions of others have synced our kobos billions of times collectively and been fine. If you don’t sync regularly you can lose your collections, your annotations, etc if your database corrupts. There is zero reason not to sync your device once a month.

Not syncing is like circumventing registration.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So it's a forced WiFi on. Oh well.

Maybe you could use the desktop app to return the Kobo Plus books and keep wifi off on the reader?

[John F]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

It’s a forced sync every 30 days. Why are you so paranoid against it? I and millions of others have synced our kobos billions of times collectively and been fine. If you don’t sync regularly you can lose your collections, your annotations, etc if your database corrupts. There is zero reason not to sync your device once a month.

Not syncing is like circumventing registration.

There are some who are paranoid, and others who don't see the need for it, and some find it cumbersome.

I've never lost all my collections or annotations (I don't annotate). I keep wifi off.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Not absolutely certain but one author mentioned something about minutes read but was unclear as to whether that was ebooks or audiobooks. I thought it was audiobooks since reading speed would play greatly into the minutes needed for an ebook.

https://kobowritinglife.zendesk.com/...Kobo-Plus-pay-

It's based on time, indeed.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by John F

There are some who are paranoid, and others who don't see the need for it, and some find it cumbersome.

I've never lost all my collections or annotations (I don't annotate). I keep wifi off.

I actually don’t care about it either way. It’s just that Jon is very vocal about the one issue possibly causing loss of data while just as determined to ignore the other issue which is more likely to result in loss of data.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cootey

Kobo Plus works on my Kobo Mini running FW 4.19.14123, which was a nice surprise.

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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

It’s a forced sync every 30 days. Why are you so paranoid against it? I and millions of others have synced our kobos billions of times collectively and been fine. If you don’t sync regularly you can lose your collections, your annotations, etc if your database corrupts. There is zero reason not to sync your device once a month.

Not syncing is like circumventing registration.

If my database corrupts, I have my database from the last time I connected my Kobo to Calibre. I guess you don't use Kobo Utilities.