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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by BozeWolf on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:54AM (#27221898)
I love my kobo libra! I didnt buy a forma, which i regret, because that would have been even better. Was sceptical at first, because I thought kindle’s OS was better. Turns out: kobo’s OS is great!

Two other things i bought last year, use daily and really like:

- This santoku knife https://www.meesterslijpers.nl/takamura-vg-10-santoku

- Airpod pro’s

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by wyldfire on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:13AM (#27222202)
Can the kobo's be rooted easily/at all? If not, can you sideload apps or books?
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by anotherevan on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:40PM (#27229610)
Loading [DRM free] books via USB using Calibre is super easy. No rooting required. Epub format works best. PDF can be so-so depending on the document.

That said, "rooting" does seem pretty easy. I use kobopatch for the sole reason of adding a button directly to the Pocket page on the home screen to save myself a "click".

https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches/releases

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by ornornor on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:04PM (#27226426)
What you’re looking for is Calibre ebook. And for the kobo there is a plug-in that makes any ebook a kobo ebook so you get niceties on all sideloaded ebooks that only books from the kobo store get.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by BozeWolf on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:42AM (#27222613)
You can put epubs and pdfs on it using usb, but i never tried that. I just buy a ebook on my ipad (in kobo’s store, or bol.com) and then its available after syncing.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by liminvorous on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:26AM (#27234377)
You can definitely sideload books, and I was able to do so without loginning into an account by adding a fake user to a sqlite file on the device. I didn't see any upside to any of the tweak/custom firmware stuff I saw over just not connecting the device to the internet for my use case, but I think root access might be possible?
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