If you are here you love privacy and you want to use an e-reader without link it to an account. Kobo e-readers are perfect for that and here I will show you how to do it with the new Kobo Libra Colour.

Important things: You’re going to lose the process of your readings You’re going to lose your notes You’re not going to be able of sync notes with the cloud

With that in mind, let´s go

Bypass Kobo Configuration

To do that you can use a freshly e-reader or one already configured.

The steps are:

  1. Connect the e-reader to the laptop
  2. Delete the file .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite. This is only present if you´re logged in. If you have it, delete it. .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite
  3. Disconnect it from pc.
  4. Restart Kobo e-reader. It will go again to the configuration menu.
  5. Connect it to pc.
  6. Navigate to .kobo/Kobo/Kobo ereader.config and open the file with notepad .kobo/Kobo/Kobo ereader.config
  7. Under the header [ApplicationPreferences] append in a new line SideloadedMode=true as in the picture: SideloadedMode=true
  8. With that in place, save the file and eject the e-reader from the pc. If it starts importing your books or if you’re in the main screen, you’re ready to go. Otherwise, restart the e-reader and you will be done.

And that´s all. If you have any doubts, reach me in my rrss. Credits goes to this tutorial where I got the main instructions. I’ve just extend them for me and put some nice pics.