-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-10-27 at 13:53 +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 27 ottobre 2017 11:22:39 CEST, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-10-26 20:26, stakanov wrote:
Is there anybody that can point me to a howto or a blog describing this?
What model of kobo?
For instance, I have a Kobo Touch, and it only connects via usb. The device appears as one or two normal usb "disks", or directly on Calibre. Nothing to do with network connections or firewalls. Well, I do not know the model as it is not mine (will see this when I arrive). But it connects via wlan AFAIU.
I'm having a H2O. It does have WLAN, but this just connects to (any) access point, and after that you can use the software on the reader to buy and download books etc. I think there also was something like a browser in the tools at some point...
That's the same thing my kobo touch does. It has an experimental browser. When reading a book, I can mark a word, do a search of that word in the book, in a dictionary (there are dictionaries for several languages and for translations), or search the word online on the wikipedia. I don't remember if it searches google. But it is very slow rendering pages. In my case, a problem is that it forgets the WiFi password randomly. I can buy a book directly from the kobo device - when you setup the account and purchase the first book it saves the credit/debit card data for subsequent purchases; this is impossible to disable, so I pay via paypal instead. Normally I buy using a computer, from any browser; the book automatically uploads to the kobo via wifi. It is as easy as can be. It has and uses DRM, transparently. They do frequent updates to the kobo device, changing the layouts and some functions. I don't understand why so many changes. The Kobo connects also to a proprietary software using Windows via USB cable. If you don't have Windows, you have to use the WiFi instead "officially". There was initially some unofficial software for Ubuntu, but the developer disapeared years ago. Abandonware.
But I always have it turned off, exclusively manage it using calibre via USB. There are some plugins for calibre that you can install for kobo. It just detects the kobo when you plug it in, and you can copy/delete stuff.
In doubt check the mobileread website (http://www.mobileread.com/forums), there's lots of help and howtos there regarding linux and kobos....
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