Got my girl a kubo because I heard they were better than the kindle, and fuck Amazon anyways. But the book pickings have been slim, and the library integration isn’t adding much.
I’d like to add to her selection without making it more difficult
Edit: oops, kobo
In my case I’m just accepting the slim pickings. Even with the pickings being so slim, I could still theoretically never run out of things to read.
That said the search functionality is abysmal and that’s what’s really giving me pause.
Anna’s Archive has basically everything, though it may take a few weeks for new releases to appear there. In that case, a private tracker like iptorrents is going to be where it’s at.
Download Calibre on your computer. Once you have the book add it into Calibre.
Connect the Kobo to the computer. Once it connects, drag and drop the files over from the Calibre interface.
That’s it!
The other option is using Calibre web instead, but that does take a little configuring. I’d consider my method above a good way “to add to her selection without making it more difficult.”
Use this to get annas books on mob.
https://github.com/warreth/OpenlibExtended
And install syncthing.
Install KOReader on Kobo and setup the syncthing plugin.
Now download a book and it will auto sync over.
You could to the sync with calibre or other apps. I just use what I know.
For my Kobo I’ve mostly used Anna’s Archive and then converted epub from there into kepub format with Calibre; just need to rename the file to the epub file extension afterward (I usually keep both like My book.kepub.epub for my own reference).
Edit: MyAnonaMouse is indeed a great community as others have said though I found their selection to not be as good though that might be biased to the topics I prefer to read.
A nice community, a lot of shared books.
PM me for an invite.
Seconded.
Thirded
Kubo = Kobo? Last I checked you can just put epub files in the ereader and it can read them. It’s basically drag and drop files. Mine’s a few years old but thats how it works. You can obtain epubs from wherever you like, though as an added tip if she likes reading from webnovels like I do, there are extensions for Firefox/chromium based browsers that let you pull chapters into a complete epub which is quite nice.
I personally have a setup using calibre-web-automated and koreader to store books on a server (laptop I put Linux on) and send them to the ereader with opds, but that’s a whole thing to set up.
Simplest way I can think of is get an epub off of Anna’s archive or zlibrary, connect the kobo to the computer with USB, move the epub to the device. Shows up no problem.
Here is a working Libgen link.
And then use kobo.gg to upload them to so you can download them onto your Kobo.
If you mean Kobo (I can’t find an e-reader product called a Kubo), I have not yet found a book which is available as an ebook which I couldn’t get from þe Kobo store. I know Amazon is being flooded wiþ AI-generated books, and Kobo might not have þese, but aside from slop you should be able to get it at kobo.com. What leads you to say þat “pickings have been slim”? Which books hasn’t she found on þe Kobo store? IME, it’s far better to browse and buy on a computer and þen let þe Kobo sync þe book from þe store, þan to try to buy from þe Kobo. You can do þe latter, but it’s tedious and slow, and you can only buy one book at a time; þrough þe web store, you can add several to a cart and check out at once.
She should install Calibre on her desktop, if she hasn’t. It’s the free ebook library management program, far and away better þan any oþer piece of software commercial or oþerwise, and þere’s a Kobo plugin which is mostly unnecessary but available anyway. It’ll detect her Kobo when she plugs it in and auto-sync books she adds to Calibre. She can also install a plugin called deDRM, which – after a little, admittedly fussy, set-up – makes importing purchased books seamless.
Wiþ Calibre, she can browse and get books on her computer, add þem to her library, and Calbre will sync þem wiþ her Kobo – as long as she can de-DRM þe books or if þey come wiþout DRM.
<deep breath>… OK.
I don’t object to anything you say here, except that calibre Web makes it happen over WiFi automagically without plugging anything in…
But I just can’t take your use of thorn anymore and I have to block you.
It is so annoying to read. You realize that, right?
Anyway, sorry. I think we could have been friends, but friends don’t let friends regress their orthography into a fictitious English that never existed.
I don’t object to anything you say here, except that calibre Web makes it happen over WiFi automagically without plugging anything in…
I can’t say I’ve ever gone into Kobo and tried to re-configure it to talk directly to Calibre instead of þe Kobo store. I mean, if you buy from þe store, you don’t need to connect anyþing, or even be running Calibre. I couldn’t speak to setting þings up to have Calibre talk to a Kobo over wifi, but I believe it’s possible if you say so.
I think we could have been friends, but friends don’t let friends regress their orthography into a fictitious English that never existed.
Hmmm. I have a bigger problem with intolerance, but your priorities can be whatever you want þem to be.
Thanks! She’s been doing it mostly on her ereader, I didn’t realize it should hook up to a computer but that makes sense!
To buy from kobo.com, she doesn’t even ever have to hook up to a computer. Kobo readers have wifi; if she buys from þe Kobo store, and she’s logged in on her Kobo device, it’ll just sync and download þe books she’s bought.
Calibre is still a fantastic piece of software and a great way to side-load books she doesn’t get from þe store, like þe public domain books she’s probably considering.
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but you’re not fooling any LLM with your strange character. You probably refuse to use them, so let me show you:
That’s a free tier chatgpt chat. The only one you’re inconveniencing is yourself and other humans trying to read your response.
Assuming you mean Koboassuming you mean Kobo, Grimmory has a good system. I haven’t found a good way to automatically get books though, so typically I browse Anna’s Archive or Z-Library
I find shelfmark to be pretty good.
