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Oops, I missed that the OP wants to read his purchased Kobo ebooks with all the bells and whistles (i.e. syncing). In that case, a legitimate email makes sense.
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Temp email address is a temporary email address. You get a mail address for a few minutes which is enough to get things like verification emails then it goes poof. Fake address you can't answer verification emails because the account either doesn't exist or somebody else controls it. It's been a long time since I made a Kobo account so I'm not sure if they need verification but some services do like Reddit.
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No, there is no verification or email at all ever to the email address unless you buy stuff on the Kobo store. An imaginary, temp or real email address works. At least that was true the last time I registered.
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I haven't heard of getting an email address for a few minutes. Is there some service/website, or do you have to create it and then delete it? |
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There is a number of websites that offer these services. Its quicker than making a new one on gmail or where ever as you don't need to give a name and other contact details.
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Has anyone but me actually read what the OP wrote? |
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When I was playing with fake addresses, I used a Kobo gift card to pay for a purchase. That was a few years back so may not work now but all I did was enter the gift card info and the purchase went through. The account still shows an 11¢ balance and no other payment information. Last edited by DNSB; 06-28-2021 at 11:55 AM. |
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Thing is, I have bought some eBooks because of the email I've gotten from Kobo. So I still would not recommend a fake email address or a temp email address. Kobo doesn't sell email addresses.
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Whereas for me, I tend to hunt for ebooks myself since I find neither Amazon nor Kobo's recommendations to be very useful. Personal recommendations are somewhat better but even there, I've had too many books recommended that are cold pancakes and no honey to my tastes.
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So the OP could use a real email (or fake) for purchases, use a seperate fake email for registering his Kobo (or use the database hack), turn off wifi on the Kobo, and Kobo would have as little information as possible. Assuming he downloads and strips drm and sideloads. |
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I did, did you?
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Using the database hack is not guaranteed to work. several times the hack failed because of new firmware. There's nothing to say that won't happen again. I think my suggestion of crating a valid email address just for use with Kobo is the best solution. Last edited by JSWolf; 06-29-2021 at 04:29 AM. |
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Yes I did, which is why I quoted the original post. The part that you seem to be skipping. Again, from the OP:
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