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I too recieved a kobo over christmas and would like to share some things Ive personally done to mine. For reference I have a Libra 2, but im sure that these tips apply across many kobo versions.
By enabling developer mode, a multitude of new beta features such as solitare, sudoku, sketch pad, a word game, and a sliding block game are unlocked. To enable developer mode, tap on the magnifing glass icon in the top right of the kobo home screen and type "devmodeon" in the search bar. Why was this stuff locked away? I love sudoku and solitare!
KOReader is an alternative to kobos default ebook-reading software which I prefer very much to the default. Its alot more fleshed out and contains many features absent otherwise. To Install Koreader, refer to these links
Koreader One-click Install Package
Wirelessly transfering Ebooks to the kobo is certainly possible and I will share two of the easiest methods Ive found.
This is a really great utility for transfering ebooks to kobos and kindles. Its a quick and dirty solution which will get tedious to use if you have a lot of books to send over, but works well.
Send To Kobo/Kindle Utility Webpage
Calibre is a ebook library software to help manage your collection of ebooks. Pretty self explainatory. One of the many neat features is starting a local content server.
Another helpful feature of calibre is that it can automatically convert Epub to Kepub (kobos specific epub format) through a plugin. For graphic Novels, theres also a plugin to convert PDFs and ZIPs to CBZ.
I have a bash script automatically run every day at a little over midnight. The script extracts content from aggregators like continum and antenna, then converts the post into a single epub for that day. From there, the epubs are exported to calibres automatic import folder and available to download through the kobos web browser. Its about as automatic a system I could work out.
Here are some website Ive found to work great with the experemental browser due to their simplicity
Duckduckgo's simplest plain-text version of their search engine
A gemini to https proxy pointing to a gemini search index
Marginalia's alternative search engine (set it to no-javascript when searching)
Marginalia's high-readablity wikipedia skimmer
I hope this helps any fellow kobo users squeeze the most utility out of their device. There are many other Kobo apps and addons I havent played around with, check out the link below to read through them.