I'm getting more and more convinced to buy an ereader from this company.
Also, can I upload my own books via wifi?
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You can do this over hotspot, but it's not as convenient as just dropping it in GDrive
Never tried via WiFi, I just use calibre. But you probably can, it's rich with features.
I might be asking too much of a random guy, but if you own a kobo, can you pls check if such a feature exists?
I use calibre web for this. It is a bit funky to setup though depending on your level of experience. Here's a guide to look over https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
Sorry, I no longer own one. Had one a few years ago tho and was very happy with it. I used to mostly sideload books via calibre through a cable connection but I'd be surprised if it wasn't feasible via WiFi. IIRC I put an android launcher on it so was also able to use the browser to download directly from various free books sites.
I would never let mine online, but still that does sound neat.
will this work for sideloaded books from calibre?
Likely not, only for registered books (Koo/Overdrive).
Nice 👌🏻 Kobo readers are great, and will now be greaterer 😁
Amazon should never been allowed to buy Goodreads.
Amazon should not be able lock authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited either, but who's gonna stop them?
My wife lost her amazon account (with all her ebooks) twice and she still buys ebooks there. I managed to import a Kobo from Paraguay to try and get her off the hook but it only worked for like 3 months as almost everything is amazon exclusive these days.
(both times she lost the accounts for disputing credit card charges that were not tied to her account)
You should check out Anna's Archive you can download whatever from there and upload it to her kindle using Calibre. Just make sure to use the links from Wikipedia for Anna's Archive.
I was never a heavy GR user because it felt like homework for reading, but I used to really enjoy reading user reviews on books I particularly disliked. Some of the reviews were more well written than the thing being reviewed. It makes me so upset that amazon is now profiting off of the dedication of the GR community.
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And then some other evil corporation buys story graph and we are back to square one, instead of building these proprietary integrations why don't companies just build open systems and people can setup the integrations on their own. If you read ebooks on windows Microsoft doesn't have to build a direct integration with some book tracking website, because a computer isn't a locked down hardware device, it's a open platform that gives the user the freedom to do whatever they want. In 2026 most devices should be running open platforms.
Kobos are already owned by a giant megacorp, but because it's Japanese most of the west hasn't heard of it
Kobos are just running Linux, albeit somewhat stripped down. You can run open source software on them just fine.
I have been using Storygraph for about 4 years and I love it. It has so many good filters and options when you are looking for a book to read. Even the automatic recommendation engine is pretty good. I picked up quite a few books from there. I have never done that on goodreads.
Only thing I am missing from Goodreads are Author's pages. When you click on an author's name on Storygraph, it just shows you their name and all their books in infinite scroll and in random order. Not even chronologically or alphabetically sorted, or even by series. No, nothing and you can't change that. There is no photo of an author or their bio either.
I really hope they view change that.
I don't like the website design much; feels like it runs on Electron or something, just not as snappy as the good old CSS of Goodreads. And their choice to implement AI stuff is annoying. But I'm happy they can be real competition for Amazon.
Yeah the author pages need work, as do the reviews/social aspect.
I completely forgot that there is some AI stuff on storygraph, because you can easily turn it off in settings and then you will never see it again. But I get what you mean.
I 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.
Yeah - I've been burned so often by companies entshittifying their product that I simply stopped using new commercial services. I mean - if I start using Storygraph, their goal is to annoy me as much as possible until I buy their $50/year subscription. The fediverse is so awesome because it it the opposite of that.
Bookwyrm looks really neat. Thanks for mentioning it.
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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)
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...
I’m personally a fan of buying a physical copy, and acquiring a digital copy.
My friend Anna was telling me about some Archive or something she found online. I wasn’t really paying attention as they were serving dinner.
who cares about your friend? stop bringing her up! ... but yes, I too use her book recommendations with my kobo + caliber
I’ve started using it due to some recommendation from other people on here (as opposed to z-lib, libgen) and noticed there are quite a few low-quality books that sneak in. We’re talking broken TOC, bad OCR, unclosed spans, etc… It’s obviously great as an archive, it has more than any other site, combined. But I can’t see myself using it for most books anymore. Could be a user issue though.
what other sites do you recommend? I've had similar issues and my ereader is really picky with formatting
To expand on this a tad: Calibre allows you to manage your digital library. And Calibre-Web allows you to access an existing Calibre database via your e-reader. Once it’s set up, your Kobo can download books directly from your Calibre instance.
There are a few good ebook stores that offer DRM-free versions of ebooks, which you can add to your Calibre instance. Or Calibre has an (unofficial, not technically supported) extension that will automatically strip DRM from files when you add them.
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Oo,hey, hehe...
Oh, the books! You were winking about the- Yep, got it now.
standardebooks.org is a great place for classics
I appreciate the heck out of the Gutenberg project but holy crap they need to invest some resources into putting 1/5 of the amount of effort Standard Ebooks puts into making every single one of their releases look and function so well in the real ebook reading scenarios of actual people
Honestly if the Gutenberg project had such a program for improving the formatting of their collection I would actually strongly consider volunteering some time towards it. Just like how I would not mind reading for Librivox
Project Gutenberg has around 50 times more than Standard Ebooks (~75 000 vs. ~1 400) and in a lot of different languages, Standard Ebooks only cares about English. Putting only 1/5 of the amount of work into it would be a drop in the bucket.
Edit: In general I agree, it's hard to figure out how to contribute to Project Gutenberg.
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.
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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
If you're up for self-hosting, you can also use something like Calibre-Web or Stump, they have Kobo Sync support AFAIK. I just use OPDS with KOReader though
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Yaasssss love Storygraph and Kobo!
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