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by silcoon 1608 days ago
Yes Kobo instead of being the “open” EPUB alternative to kindle tried to close the system forcing users to log in.

Last time I bought a kobo I was travelling and I needed to trick the system to let me in without registering and so on. Pretty much you buy a $150 device for read EPUB files and the first thing ask you is to connect to the network and register.

I will never buy another kobo again. Kindle is the worst. Hoping to find an alternative really open.