07-01-2020, 05:34 PM | #1 |
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Missing Books in my VERY OLD Kobo Account
I've had a Kobo account for over 10 years. I'm showing books in my purchase list that go back to Nov 2010, but I'm convinced i bought some early 2010 or late 2009. I'm convinced there's purchases missing, but I'm having difficulty finding out how to verify that.
I read something about some books being accidentally archived, and how to restore them, but i can't find the archive section in my Kobo account. Can someone help refresh my memory to tell me when we could start buying Kobo books and save in our library and if there's been issues with some disappearing from your purchase list? |
07-01-2020, 06:40 PM | #2 |
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If you don't see them in your Kobo purchase history, then the email receipts would probably be the only other way to see if anything is missing on your end.
My first purchase from emails is dated April 2010. I think I registered my account when they were Shortcovers, which was probably before that, though? I likely grabbed freebies before that date. The archive section should be linked from your Library on the website. |
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07-01-2020, 09:16 PM | #3 | |
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07-01-2020, 09:47 PM | #4 |
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I checked my Kobo books and all 1567 purchases I have recorded are either in my active library or in the archives. This goes back to March 2010.
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07-02-2020, 04:24 AM | #5 | |
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I've been buying software by download for nearly 20 years. On a related note, don't buy any home appliance, remote control, HiFi, heating control, security that needs access to the Internet to operate. The Maker WILL brick it by discontinuing the server, or expose it to miscreants. The Internet and Cloud libraries are a convenience. They shouldn't be relied on. I even save websites on occasion if it's important as you can't rely on the Wayback Machine (IA archive.org) because even if they make copies, they may be incomplete. The "wget" is good, but like ebooks on a Vendor's "library" you may need javascript and explicitly saving content. |
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07-02-2020, 04:57 AM | #6 |
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One idea that occurs to me is that the books may have been pulled from the Kobo store at some point. Perhaps the licensing before that time was different. If the books are still available for Kobo, they may not have the same ISBN numbers as the edition you purchased. 🤷🏻*♂️
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07-02-2020, 09:40 AM | #9 |
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I have no idea. How about asking and reporting back what happens?
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07-02-2020, 12:53 PM | #10 |
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07-02-2020, 12:54 PM | #11 | |
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There are thousands of Kobo and Amazon customers that are clueless when it comes to anything computer related. Many do not know what DRM is, much less what it means to side-load via Calibre with a little help from our apprentice pal. Further, they have no interest in doing so. They are purchasing a product with the reasonable expectation that the vendor will (and should) provide what they claim. The only requirement is to browse, click on a book and presto, it's on their device ready to go. That's all they know. They expect their books to be available in their account. Those of us here on MR do not represent the majority of consumers. The air must be rather thin up there on that mountain of self-righteousness. |
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07-02-2020, 01:35 PM | #12 | |
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I'm pretty certain that those who purchased Microsoft .lit format ebooks are getting a chuckle out of your statements. Heck, those who purchased books from any of the ebook stores that are no longer in existence will join in the laughter. |
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07-02-2020, 01:42 PM | #13 | |
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07-02-2020, 02:03 PM | #14 | |
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Unless you can show examples where "current/recent adopters" who purchased ebooks are having issues with finding them in their libraries to download them, what is the relevance and meaning of dragging them into this discussion? |
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07-02-2020, 02:15 PM | #15 |
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So two people claim that books purchased aren’t in their kobo library anymore. Neither can or at least has offered up any evidence of a purchase or even what books.
There’s been zero public outcry unlike when Amazon yanked a book off customers devices. We need not go into the details of why the book was pulled since for the relevance to this situation it only matters that they were pulled. There are users with libraries as old without any issues. It’s looking more like those books were probably purchased elsewhere, especially given the time frame since there were certainly a litany of options in 2010, and given a decade or more has past you’ve simply forgotten where you purchased said books from. |
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