Two Kobos, One Kobo Account? - Page 3

Lumute · 01-14-2015, 05:32 PM

Hi Everyone.

Me and my wife just purchased a couple of Kobo readers, we have very different taste in books but we like to also find books we can both read and comment.

We have been thinking about this account sharing thing and kind of find it a hassle to have all of our books automatically sync'd to both readers, and for the only ones we read in common then the bookmarks sync, etc becomes an issue, so I was thinking that this may be the best solution for us but not sure if this would work:

Each with its own Kobo account and library, but both readers authorized by the same Adobe DRM ID, so for the odd books that we want to share one of us will buy it and the other one can side load it...

would this work? any downside you can see?

davidfor · 01-14-2015, 07:46 PM

Lumute: It should work. The only downside I can think of is remembering to log into the correct account to download books.

The way we do this is that I have a Kobo account and my son's Glo also logs into it. My wife has her own account. For shared books, I strip the DRM and use calibre for sideloading. My reading and my son's overlap a lot more, but we don't normally read the same book at the same time. And I usually sideload the epub version and read that.

Jimboat · 04-17-2022, 03:13 PM

what if i have an OLDER kobo ereader, and purchase a new version kobo ereader. will BOTH ereaders work ok with my ONE kobo account?

Sirtel · 04-17-2022, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimboat

what if i have an OLDER kobo ereader, and purchase a new version kobo ereader. will BOTH ereaders work ok with my ONE kobo account?

Yes, of course. There's no limit to how many readers you can register to your account.

Jimboat · 04-17-2022, 03:31 PM

and if the readers are different versions (say older Aura and newer Libra2), my one account will support both versions?

Sirtel · 04-17-2022, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimboat

and if the readers are different versions (say older Aura and newer Libra2), my one account will support both versions?

Yes, it will.

davidfor · 04-17-2022, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimboat

and if the readers are different versions (say older Aura and newer Libra2), my one account will support both versions?

While reading this post, look to the left and see the list of Kobo devices I have. All except one is logged into the same Kobo account. They are kept on the same firmware version, but, that doesn't matter. I have WiFi on all the time and they just sync the books and reading status for the purchased books.

The device that is not logged into the account is being used in sideloaded mode for testing purposes.

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01-14-2015, 05:32 PM	#31
Lumute Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Kobo Touch	Hi Everyone. Me and my wife just purchased a couple of Kobo readers, we have very different taste in books but we like to also find books we can both read and comment. We have been thinking about this account sharing thing and kind of find it a hassle to have all of our books automatically sync'd to both readers, and for the only ones we read in common then the bookmarks sync, etc becomes an issue, so I was thinking that this may be the best solution for us but not sure if this would work: Each with its own Kobo account and library, but both readers authorized by the same Adobe DRM ID, so for the odd books that we want to share one of us will buy it and the other one can side load it... would this work? any downside you can see?

01-14-2015, 07:46 PM	#32
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Lumute: It should work. The only downside I can think of is remembering to log into the correct account to download books. The way we do this is that I have a Kobo account and my son's Glo also logs into it. My wife has her own account. For shared books, I strip the DRM and use calibre for sideloading. My reading and my son's overlap a lot more, but we don't normally read the same book at the same time. And I usually sideload the epub version and read that.

04-17-2022, 03:13 PM	#33
Jimboat Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2022 Device: kobo	what if i have an OLDER kobo ereader, and purchase a new version kobo ereader. will BOTH ereaders work ok with my ONE kobo account?

04-17-2022, 03:31 PM	#35
Jimboat Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2022 Device: kobo	and if the readers are different versions (say older Aura and newer Libra2), my one account will support both versions?

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