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I wasn't able to find any integration with overdrive in Canada when I last tried the kindle. The Kobo's here do work seamlessly with overdrive but only for ebooks though, no magazines or audiobooks

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Yes, the Kobo doesn't work with magazines either for me.

An alternative is to use the Libby App on the phone. You can also download the magazines for offline reading.

Or you could use the Libbyapp [1] on the browser to sign in to your Overdrive account, borrow and read the magazines.

[1] https://libbyapp.com/

yup. That's what I do right now when I want to check out magazines. Though, I will admit that's not often

With that being said, it would be amazing if Kobo can implement support for magazines so that you could use eink displays for reading magazines in a park on a sunny day without any glare

I believe it should be possible for some magazines. I read some issues of The Economist and National Geographic magazine, and they come with a 'reader mode' where the magazine page formatting is removed, and you are presented with bare text and images, like the Reader Mode in Firefox (and Chrome?).

That should work on a Kobo. But it requires Overdrive to recognize this and push the readable formatted magazine to the Kobo.

Kindle don't work with overdrive anywhere except for the United States.

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