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   Serina, Starglass Witch (siriusverre@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:16:21 JST Serina, Starglass Witch

   @mriesp@akko.wtf for whatever reason, I could never really get into the idea of reading e-books at my PC or my laptop, and my phone and its display kind of suck, so I went for the next best thing :elainawonders:
   
   I already had a pretty decent collection in Calibre and now I have a proper place for all of it to call home :elainasmile:

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     Susanna (susie@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:16:20 JST Susanna

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     @siriusverre @mriesp I love my Libra 2 as well. It's a distinctly different reading experience compared to a normal screen. I suggest turning the backlight completely off and using a normal reading light when necessary.
     
     I have grown to prefer the e-reader to physical books. It is lighter, the page stays open, can fit so many books in to it and most importantly can customize the font and other display settings to my ideal values rather than whatever the book was printed with.
     
     Kobo devices work just fine with an usb connection, so there is really no need to bother with the store or other cloud services (I have turned on the sideload only mode so I don't even have the store). I read mostly public domain e-books so I tend to download whole collections/all the books of a certain writer at a time and then read them on my leisure. That way I never run out of books to read even if would end up without a PC for a long time.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:28:43 JST iced depresso

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     @susie @siriusverre @mriesp if you are rooting a kobo, you are installing koreader on it anyway.,
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     Susanna (susie@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:28:45 JST Susanna

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     @siriusverre @mriesp You can enable sideload mode by: connect the Kobo to a PC, edit your KOBOeReader/.kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf file (just browse to it like a normal usb stick). in the [ApplicationPreferences] section, add a line that says "SideloadedMode=true" (without quotes.) If the PC is Windows, you need to use a text editor that will respect and keep the Unix New Line convention. (Notepad++ is usually the suggested go to for people to install on a Windows PC.)
     
     However! That turns off all the online functions I think. So you can't use the library service. I think you can just keep using it normally. Kobo is pretty nice on the software side and there are no dozen trackers keeping your wifi active like in Amazon devices.
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     Serina, Starglass Witch (siriusverre@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:28:46 JST Serina, Starglass Witch

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     @susie@blob.cat @mriesp@akko.wtf I was shocked how light it was when I first got it! It was no struggle to carry around and just set down to read regardless of bed or kitchen or bathroom. I even brought it with me to the diner I had breakfast at and took my sweet time reading it there :elainachuckle:
     
     As much as I love physical print books, the convenience of what the Libra 2 offered really was too good. I even got KOReader and Plato installed at the recommendation of a friend and it's been neat tinkering with them. Being able to borrow e-books through my public library onto it has also been great :elainasmile:
     
     Oh yeah, how do you get into sideload mode? I heard about it before!