Hi all, I am planning to buy a Kobo Libra 2, and I want to know if I can get anything better (I’m thinking about the Boox page, but I want to learn if there is something else with similar dimensions).

I have an original Aura ( almost 10 years old!) that I still use and appreciate. I am very satisfied with Kobo support, they still send updates to this old device. But the touchscreen lost sensitivity in a small area and this is bothering me.

I want mainly a “pure” e-reader for EPUBs, and from time to time some pdfs (I use koreader for that on the Aura). The reason my choice right now is a new Kobo is that my experience with the Aura has been very good.

What do you think? I would like to hear some different opinion

  • lgsp@feddit.itOP
    3·
    6 months ago

    syncing it wirelessly to my Calibre library

    This sounds really interesting. How do you do that? I still use the usb cable with my Aura

    • SteelCorrelation@lemmy.one
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have Calibre Web set up in a Docker container and it has a Kobo sync functionality built in. You basically go into the main Kobo config file on your e-reader, input your server’s URL with an API key (that you get from Calibre Web), and then you sync it there instead of the Kobo store. It’s a lot simpler than it sounds. So now, I add a book to my Calibre server, go to Calibre Web and tell it which books to sync to my Kobo (since I don’t want every book synced), and bam, there it goes. Hundreds of DRM-free books without a USB cable, except for the one time I needed it to tweak my config file.

      • lgsp@feddit.itOP
        1·
        6 months ago

        Having Koreader installed, I exit the config file directly on the Kobo itself 😉

        So this is a different solution to uncaged which is what I found when I read your answer

        https://github.com/shermp/Kobo-UNCaGED

        I actually use the Kobo store, so maybe uncaged us better for me, I will consider both btw