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Alright then, question time: I've looked into Kobo for my wife, who predominantly reads books in Spanish.

Navigating the various offerings seems like a minefield of digital rights and lockouts. Where would I go to legally buy Spanish language books no matter where I am physically located in the world?

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Casa del Libro maybe.

https://www.casadellibro.com/ebooks

Thanks, will give that a try.

If you have a good local library system, they probably have a subscription service to an ebook provider that is not Amazon/kobo and will let you borrow ebooks for free, just like physical books from the library. Mine has a wide selection that includes Spanish language books.

Https://www.kobo.com/es ?

That's unfortunately the one we've already tried. For whatever reasons we can't seem to actually download the books that were purchased.

Are you sure? They do obscure the direct download links on the German kobo site (kobobooks.de), apparently preferring people to use their e-readers sync functionality. But last i checked I was able to download the kepub files after some browsing around in the web interface. I can't verify this now as the site isn't loading for some reason

Replying to myself here. it is indeed possible. On the website, go to "My account -> my books" (for me that's https://www.kobo.com/de/en/library) where you see all the covers of your books. Directly underneath the cover are three dots "...". Clicking on them brings up a small menu with a download option. But now that I think about it, it might also have sth to do with the fact that coincidentally, all the books I bought on Kobo seem to be without DRM (publisher is Tor.com), so maybe that's got sth to do with it as well.

https://www.nubico.es/ is what came with my bq Cervantes, but I can't vouch about whether the DRM is cross compatible -- though I'm sure with Calibre it can probably be stripped.

Thanks, we will give that a try.

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