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I must have missed something? Ever since I bought my Kobo H2O I could use Calibre to sync my books, or even use the USB mass storage solution.

EvanAnderson 5y ago
Same here. I bought a Kobo H2O last Feb. I've only ever loaded books from Calibre over USB mass storage. I chose the Kobo for the device being easily root-able. My daughter reads on it but I reasoned that if she got tired of it I could do "cool Linux stuff" with it.
salamandersauce 5y ago
You could but Kobo devices expected you to log in with a Kobo or other partner account (Rakuten, FNAC, etc.) on first setup. This allows you to bypass the need for any account and just sideload books on. You could previously hack around this but it sometimes caused issues.
- EvanAnderson 5y ago
  I guess I do vaguely remember creating an account. Hmm... It must have been painless because I don't remember it. I know that it's not on any Wi-Fi network now so it has functioned for about a year with no network connectivity, at least. Edit: I remember now. Looking down in the comments here dislodged the memory that I did the "add a row to an SQLite database" hack to prevent the need for account creation.
interfixus 5y ago
Exact same here. But to get the ball rolling, I had to set up an account and connect exactly once. Throwaway mail-account and immidiately afterwards I disabled all wifi access. Not ideal, but has served me well enough for a couple of years, and it's a very nice reader. I wouldn't use a Kindle if you threw it at me. Nobody's damned business what I read and when.
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kitsunesoba 5y ago
Same, I bought my Aura ONE because it worked with good old USB Mass Storage and could read ePubs without any intermediary steps, both right out of the box. It’s a nice little device.
- tiahura 5y ago
  How’s the touch screen accuracy on yours? Mine is frustratingly poor.
  - morelisp 5y ago
    This has also been my experience with the Aura rebrands.
  - kitsunesoba 5y ago
    No issues, but my needs are not demanding at all. 98% of the touch interaction is just turning pages, it spends very little time without a book open.
smorgusofborg 5y ago
AFAICT you can't just rely on USB mass storage, it is expecting their app to be present. I think there's an edit you can make to their MySQL database and maybe a calibre plugin does that?
- KennyBlanken 5y ago
  Unless this is something Kobo added in the last couple of years, my Kobo automatically prompts me for whether I want to enable mass storage when connected to a PC and that's that.

EvanAnderson 5y ago

Same here. I bought a Kobo H2O last Feb. I've only ever loaded books from Calibre over USB mass storage. I chose the Kobo for the device being easily root-able. My daughter reads on it but I reasoned that if she got tired of it I could do "cool Linux stuff" with it.

salamandersauce 5y ago

You could but Kobo devices expected you to log in with a Kobo or other partner account (Rakuten, FNAC, etc.) on first setup. This allows you to bypass the need for any account and just sideload books on. You could previously hack around this but it sometimes caused issues.

EvanAnderson 5y ago
I guess I do vaguely remember creating an account. Hmm... It must have been painless because I don't remember it. I know that it's not on any Wi-Fi network now so it has functioned for about a year with no network connectivity, at least. Edit: I remember now. Looking down in the comments here dislodged the memory that I did the "add a row to an SQLite database" hack to prevent the need for account creation.

interfixus 5y ago

Exact same here. But to get the ball rolling, I had to set up an account and connect exactly once. Throwaway mail-account and immidiately afterwards I disabled all wifi access. Not ideal, but has served me well enough for a couple of years, and it's a very nice reader. I wouldn't use a Kindle if you threw it at me. Nobody's damned business what I read and when.

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kitsunesoba 5y ago

Same, I bought my Aura ONE because it worked with good old USB Mass Storage and could read ePubs without any intermediary steps, both right out of the box. It’s a nice little device.

tiahura 5y ago
How’s the touch screen accuracy on yours? Mine is frustratingly poor.
- morelisp 5y ago
  This has also been my experience with the Aura rebrands.
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  No issues, but my needs are not demanding at all. 98% of the touch interaction is just turning pages, it spends very little time without a book open.

smorgusofborg 5y ago

AFAICT you can't just rely on USB mass storage, it is expecting their app to be present. I think there's an edit you can make to their MySQL database and maybe a calibre plugin does that?

KennyBlanken 5y ago
Unless this is something Kobo added in the last couple of years, my Kobo automatically prompts me for whether I want to enable mass storage when connected to a PC and that's that.