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Old 03-26-2025, 12:50 PM   #76
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Do they not have them in Best Buys anymore? Or was that not a thing in the U.S?
Actually, they do have some languishing at Best Buys that I've visited.

They're big on Amazon, have a few Remarkables and I even see an Onyx Palma listed.
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Old 03-26-2025, 12:52 PM   #77
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Old 03-26-2025, 01:40 PM   #78
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For Onyx Boox, as far as I can tell. Brick and mortar sell them by themselves while ordering from Onyx Boox gives you a package deal of the reader and a case. Ok, this is true for the 6" that I buy. I think the cases get pretty expensive when they are bigger or origami.
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So what does this mean to someone like me who bought his Kobo device from Walmart? So far, I still see the Walmart splash screen when I reboot the device. I wish it were Kobo, I wish there was a way to change it so that I won't have to redo it every firmware update.
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So what does this mean to someone like me who bought his Kobo device from Walmart? So far, I still see the Walmart splash screen when I reboot the device. I wish it were Kobo, I wish there was a way to change it so that I won't have to redo it every firmware update.
Same here, at least my Clara HD.

Device still works. I can still purchase books. As long as nothing breaks, I don't care. I set up a Rakuten/Kobo account from day 1 and never used SSO with a "Walmart" account, so there was no problem there. I'm still happily purchasing Kobo books directly from the app.

It is kinda weird that even when I buy books on my Sage or from the Android App, I still get a "Walmart" receipt in my email.

I guess if Kobo really wanted to, they could push out a firmware update that removes the vendor association in the conf file. I doubt they will, though.
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Old 03-28-2025, 02:10 PM   #82
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My local walmart has lots of stock on 2 kobo models. I live in Nova Scotia.
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I think this thread is about Walmart in the USA not in Canada.
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Last cruise we went on, we visited Nova Scotia.
One time I went to Nova Scotia and onward to Sackville, New Brunswick.

Sackville was the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's big shortwave transmitter site.
It broadcast CBC and relays of BBC radio programs.
From 2012 to 2014 it was shut down and demolished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKCX

I knocked on the door and asked for and received a tour.
I still think fondly of all those years listening to BBC on 5.975 MHz.
I also listened to As It Happens on CBC.
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