This is doubly annoying because where the Glo really doesn’t need one, the Arc would benefit hugely from expandable memory. Kobo offers backplates in other colours, although these aren’t readily available in the UK at present.īack to the core specs – while the Kobo Arc’s E-ink brother, the Kobo Glo, features a microSD card slot, the Kobo Arc does not. This also exposes the battery unit, although as it’s still held in place with tiny screws, changing the battery isn’t exactly a cinch. Harking back to the days when you could buy Hello Kitty fascias for you mobile phone, the Kobo Arc’s plastic rear is removable. You can hold this tablet one-handed, but you’ll start to feel it in your forearms after a while. At 364g, the Kobo Arc sits almost exactly between the super-light Nook HD and the decidedly chunky Kindle Fire HD. It’s significantly heavier than any E-ink readers, though. Still, it has the diamond pattern soft touch plastic rear and portrait aspect that have become hallmarks of the Kobo brand. The Kobo Glo is a front-lit E-ink device like the Kindle Paperwhite, but the Kobo Arc is, effectively, a tablet, with an LCD screen and the Android OS. The two are completely different devices, though. Where other 7-inch reading-focused tablets try to differentiate themselves with designs you won’t find elsewhere, the Kobo Arc looks almost exactly like a larger version of the 6-inch Kobo Glo. The Kobo Arc may not be about to knock the Google Nexus 7 into submission, but it’s more flexible than either the Amazon Kindle Fire HD or the Barnes & Noble Nook HD. The new Kobo Arc can’t be much worse than the Kobo Vox. Its E-ink eReaders are among the best, but its first LCD-screen tablets was one of the worst we’d used at the time. This has been so frustrating that I am seriously thinking of not getting another Kobo - but what else can we use for library books? I thought I had posted this already but it seemed to have disappeared the first time.Kobo is foremost a maker of eReaders and pedlar of ebooks. My latest attempt was to download Dropbox cloud on my Mac, but it will not load on the Arc so I can't transfer that way either. Calibre will recognize it but I can't seem to transfer books to the Arc from there either. ADE will not recognize my Arc, nor will Kobo Desktop. So I have tried countless ways to be able to transfer the books from my computer and have found nothing works. And Overdrive will no longer accept the Arc as device that it will connect with. Kobo has now stopped supporting the Arc and will no longer update the software. Have never had trouble downloading books via wifi after borrowing on my computer. I also have a Kobo Arc, It has worked well for years, and I have read a lot of library books on it. For the future I will download to my Kobo before I download to my phone. Unfortunately I no longer have the first book on loan so I can't test whether it will open now to tell you. Today without fiddling further with my Kobo I tried a downloading a different book from the public library onto my Kobo via ADE 4.5.11 and it opens on the Kobo without problems. I have searched here but unfortuantely cannot find the exact reference again to credit. Somewhere here I found the suggestion that older Kobos need to be the first device you download to from your computer. I was able to download the same book to an old Blackberry Playbook and open it without problems. I reauthorized the Kobo e-reader and computer multiple times, uninstalled ADE 4.5.11, reinstalled and tried ADE 3.0, reinstalled ADE 4.5.11, did a complete factory reset of Kobo, deleted all copies on computer and Kobo, redownloaded and nothing worked. I did everything Adobe & Kobo say and tried hints under the heading "Issue With Kobe Touch and Adobe" from 2017. The Kobo kept on saying I was unauthorized to open the book yet ADE said I was authorized. Later I downloaded the same book to my Kobo via ADE 4.5.11 (Windows 10) but could not open the copy on the Kobo. I downloaded a library book directly to Libby on my Android phone. My Kobo Touch is almost 8 years old but loads Kobo's books without problems. Same problem opening Adobe DRM from the public library.
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