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Kobo e-readers collect telemetry on your sideloaded books, and there's no official way to opt out (github.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/books@lemmy.ml
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Your Kobo Knows Every Book You've Ever Read

See https://github.com/seandheath/koboctl

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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I have an older Kobo Glo and I always transfer books via usb. I have never connected it to the internet. Isn't that possible anymore with newer Kobos?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    No, they require a login to initialize these days

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    I got one just in June. I've been using it for months and have never created an account. I only connect it via USB and use it to read works from Anas Archive.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    My Kobo Clara HD had a hard reset that after starting up required an account, there have been reports of this going back for years. Which model do you have?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Are you sure the method described in your link doesn't work? I'm seeing other sources saying it does: https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/30/kobo-rego.html

    I don't remember exactly how I did it but I have a Clara 2e and was able to bypass the login requirement by editing the sqlite file, I have never put in a wifi password

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think it depends on what you want. You only need to do the SQL lite thing if you want to be able to access the store and overdrive, probably a few other features.

    If you don't care about any of that, you just open the .conf go to the [ApplicationPreferences] section and add the line

    SideloadedMode=true

    Then you're good to go. This worked on my Kobo Clara BW and my old Libra h2o (which I miss so much).

    If you want to keep going from there then nickelmenu, koreader.

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