The integration launches in June and will automatically sync progress with the reading platform.
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40 minutesI would love to have https://joinbookwyrm.com/ capability. That would be fun. You finish a book, and bookwyrm would auto tell you were finished. Give users the option to post about it.
Where do people who use kobo readers buy their ebooks? Is there a reliable non Amazon e-reader shop that sells from free books? (Besides humble store)
- 4 hours
Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.
Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…
- saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Oo,hey, hehe…
Oh, the books! You were winking about the- Yep, got it now.
- 3 hours
They have a lot of DRM-free options and let you download a clean epub, but like with other stores, it’s up to the publishers whether (and/or when) they can sell them without DRM BS.
I like being able to download the epubs directly so I can put them on my Calibre-web instance and pull them to my Kobo or my phone or whatever I want to read on.
By preference (at least for me):
- Buy outright (AKA online stores like https://www.baen.com/). No DRM ebooks are great.
- Buy from authors website or sometimes patreon.
- Calibre + digital library download. My local library has an app, and you can just get the book and then sideload.
- Yoho if I cant find it elsewhere.
I try really hard to give authors money in some way…but sometimes Yoho is all you got if they have an amazon exclusive contract.
Its been 14+ years with this combo and I cant say I have ever had issues getting books.
- commander@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Assuming you meant drm free books
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free
Not every book on kobo is drm free from what I remember so keep an eye on that
My boyfriend has a Kobo, and he has an integration with his library that allows him to borrow ebooks.
I’d have to ask him how it works exactly, but it sounds pretty convenient.- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Someone should make a youtube sketch where a woman keeps getting suspicious of her boyfriend cheating on her.
And the bf IS being secretive, and dismissive. The girlfriend isn’t being paranoid, or crazy. The boyfriend IS giving her legit reason to think he’s hiding something. Every Tuesday he won’t return calls. Gets dodgy about asking where he was. So she decides to follow him.
And when she follows him turns out he goes over to a guys house. And then, men and women keep showing up. Gotta be 30 people in this house. So now she’s thinking her boyfriend is doing sex cult shit. Like in eyes wide shut.
So when she finally breaks down the door, and goes in, turns out he’s just in an ereader book club of the month. They all read the same book, at the same pace. And then discuss.
So when she asked him what he was doing those days, he told her that “she wouldn’t understand”, he just meant that she was illiterate and wouldn’t understand reading. And when she asked where he went, and he said “It’s a secret”, that’s just the name of their book club. And when she asked who’s perfume she smells on his jacket, he said “That’s just Julie. I eat her pie, while staring at her rack.” He just meant she brings baked goods for all the book club members, and they look at the book rack for the next book the club will read.
And then when she’s finally relieved, and all the confusion has been sorted, she asks if she can join the book club. So he says “You can…but I don’t know if you’re the type of girl who would want to participate in the late night post book reading orgys.”
- Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish24 minutes
for that amount of set up I should have expected the punchline
- partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I’m not a kobo owner, but I’ve bought multiple hundreds of dollars of fully legal ebooks off Humble Bundle. Some of these collections are actually sourced through the Kobo ebook store for the backend delivery. Other collections are non-DRM epubs. I’m currently reading through the Martha Wells collection (Murderbot, Ile-Rien series). It was $18 for 14 of her novels/novellas. Prior to that was a collection of Hugh Howey (Dust, Sand) and Neil Stephenson (Seveneves) There’s currently a Robert Silverberg collection of 32 books for $18 I’ll probably pick up.
- Shortstack@reddthat.comEnglish3 hours
DRM ebooks are less of an issue unlike other forms of media because it’s extremely easy to convert to an open format, as long as you have access to the ebook file.
You only need to install Calibre and an add-on for it to remove DRM, which you will need to search for on the web as it’s not baked into calibre for what I hope are obvious reasons
All except for Amazon. You need to have access to your Kindle Serial ID. If you don’t have it, or deleted your Amazon account like I did, you’re SOL.
Unless there’s another way to De-DRM Amazon books thru Calibre that I don’t know about.
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- Naioh@piefed.worldEnglish4 hours
You can buy ebooks on your reader from the Kobo store. I have a Kobo with the “plus” subscription which allows you to rent certain books too.
- orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
The biggest problem I have with Kobo isn’t even really something that’s their fault or that they can do anything about. Amazon through their Amazon Unlimited program has locked a bunch of major authors into exclusivity contracts where they’re contractually barred from distributing their ebooks on other platforms. That in turn means a bunch of major authors are just completely unavailable anywhere but Amazon, and of course Amazon ebooks exclusively only work on Kindle devices. It’s a vicious feedback loop where authors refuse to leave Amazon because it’s the market dominator by a large margin and consumers refuse to use anything else because all the authors are only on Amazon.
If you can make do with non-Amazon sources of ebooks it’s great to do so and we really need more people doing exactly that in order to convince authors that the Amazon shackles aren’t worth it, but it’s definitely a struggle sometimes.
I ran into this exclusivity thing and sent a message to the author. He promptly gave me a copy of his book (since he is prohibited from selling it to me). So I sent him a tip on ko-fi for the amount of the book.
No promises every author will do this, but it went pretty well for me.
- Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.caEnglish3 hours
If an author is Amazon exclusive I don’t feel bad getting the book from other sources, and just put it on my Kobo.
If I want to support them, I will buy the book either as a physical book or on Amazon, and read the otherly-acquired book on my Kobo anyway.
- pucker4676@lemmy.mlEnglish3 hours
This is definitely where a 3rd party comes into play. I buy lots of books, but if you want to be difficult there’s always an alternative way.
I just load PDFs and what not directly onto mine. Project Gutenberg has tons of free ebooks.
Overdrive is cool too.
- seat6@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
As others have said, it integrates with your local library. It works pretty flawlessly
