10-08-2018, 08:02 PM | #46 |
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Okay, so there is a way to change the Kobo to be the opposite of the selection below? So the arrows (on both sides) point in instead of out?
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10-08-2018, 08:06 PM | #47 | |
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10-08-2018, 08:34 PM | #48 | |
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As for Kindle? Hmmm... download the ebook using ADE, strip the DRM, import into Calibre, convert to AZW3 or mobi format and send to your Kindle either directly or using the right ebook format, email. This is the user experience outside the USA and in the USA for libraries that do not support Kindle format loans. |
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I contacted Kobo customer service through their website. Three separate times. The second and third attempts were answered by people who had Walmart/Rakuten signatures. The last one definitely kept trying to send me to my local Walmart to buy a new reader rather than fix the current one. I borrow from libraries in both the US and U.K. they all support kindle or ePub, you just choose which you want. Choosing Kindle sends you to Amazon where it sends your library book direct to device and removes it when the lend is finished. I can’t guarantee all libraries do that, but the four library systems I borrow from all do. |
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10-08-2018, 10:20 PM | #51 | |
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Thanks for showing me. It does help to actually see what is talked about. Can one put more than one library on the device? I have 3. I might see if I can find a Kobo locally. Still looking, none of the walmarts have them. I think it wold be great for my husband for library books. Right now we keep moving his kindle from my account to his account. I have the libraries, he doesn't. He buys and gets free books on his own amazon account. But it annoys him not to be able to browse the libraries at will and me having to send the books then read them and switch accounts again. He can never remember all the sign ins to the libraries. |
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10-09-2018, 01:02 AM | #52 |
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@Atunah: Can't you link both your accounts together as a family, keep his Kindle on your account, and he should be able to read all purchased books from his account and the loans from yours. At least how I understand it.
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10-09-2018, 01:07 AM | #53 |
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only if you want to share full use of your payment card(s), for all of amazon. that's a pre-requisite for family book sharing
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10-09-2018, 01:13 AM | #54 |
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That is hardly a problem, unless they are married only on paper without real trust. I have to assume they are married because they want to be.
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10-09-2018, 01:33 AM | #55 | |
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as an example of how it could be done, I have a share of her google play music family subscription and they get to share my paid for google apps placed in family library. no sharing of payment details was needed to set that up. It's not perfect, I cannot see their playlists and vice versa, but it is better than amazon's attempts. |
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10-09-2018, 01:57 AM | #56 | |
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Btw, all my Kindles are parental locked. It prevents resetting the device by accident or on purpose. |
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10-09-2018, 02:08 AM | #57 |
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Everybody but kobo has jumped on the digital family subscription idea, Spotify. Apple, Google, Amazon...
But the thought of a "kobo quality" implementation is scary. Probably safer to diy it with the relevent de DRM tools. Even their simple library loan idea seems bogged down in having to have the correct flavour of Adobe id,and having to do things in a certain sequence, though Adobe probably deserves some of the blame for lack of compatibility across all their versions Paper books have always been a natural " friends and family share" , more so than music. The limitation that there can only be one reader at a time is not a problem. Others bad habits of dog earing pages and spine bending was probably the most off putting factor of book sharing |
10-09-2018, 02:12 AM | #58 |
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Btw, all my Kindles are parental locked. It prevents resetting the device by accident or on purpose.[/QUOTE] We parent lock kindles for store purchases, as we have no need to shop from device. I forgot a password once though and it was as nightmare to unlock even with Amazon's help. They have some secret backdoor code unlock tricks but getting them to work... As this is a comparisons thread, what locks, controls does kobo offer? |
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10-09-2018, 06:19 AM | #60 | |
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Of the two I have access to, one uses cloudLibrary by Bibliotheca, which doesn't support Kindle ("cloudLibrary is currently not compatible with Kindle Paperwhites or the Kindle Apps. If you would like to read eBooks on your Kindle please email kindle-feedback@amazon.com and request that Amazon allow compatibility with cloudLibrary"). The other uses OverDrive, which doesn't support Kindle in the UK ("Note: Kindle Books are currently available for U.S. libraries only.") Amusingly, Amazon UK's help pages have an entry for "Borrow Books from a Public Library". It is empty. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200747550 While you may find individual libraries that do work, the safest assumption for the UK would be that you cannot borrow books on a Kindle. One thing to think about though is Kindle Unlimited. If you don't mind paying the £8 per month, you may find it a better service than the public libraries. Obviously you don't have access to all the books that the public library does, but you also never have to go on a waitlist for a book, and the total number of books available is orders of magnitude higher. Last edited by murraypaul; 10-09-2018 at 06:31 AM. |
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