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Old 03-17-2023, 10:18 AM   #1
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Can you not preview free books?

On the Kobo store website, clicking the cover of a lot of books opens a free preview. However, this doesn't seem to be possible for free books.

Can anyone confirm? The Kobo site is being spotty for me (503 errors) so it's hard to check.
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Old 03-17-2023, 10:25 AM   #2
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On the Kobo store website, clicking the cover of a lot of books opens a free preview. However, this doesn't seem to be possible for free books.

Can anyone confirm? The Kobo site is being spotty for me (503 errors) so it's hard to check.
I'm getting 503 errors as well.
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Dang! I was hoping it was just a localized problem. Though, IIRC, Massachusetts isn't too far from N.S. so maybe it sitll is.
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Old 03-17-2023, 10:40 AM   #4
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Can't test, Kobo too intermittent here in Ireland right now. Sometimes loads after long delay, or at once or times out. Maybe Kobo suffering DDOS attack?
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I can confirm that Kobo doesn’t do previews on free books, or at least not on the ones I’ve ever looked at. As a workaround, I tend to preview another book in the same series, but obviously that doesn’t work for standalone books (or even series where each book is written from a different character’s viewpoint/style/etc).

I wish they would let you preview free books, though, but I guess they figure you could just remove the book from your library if you didn’t want it.
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