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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Question of the day: What is Kobo OS 6? What’s changing? Kobo OS is the software that powers our ereaders and handles everything from turning pages to library downloads.Because this is starting to roll out as a limited, optional beta, I thought I would share some details (very excited!). Read on…

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have a beta version of Kobo OS 6.0 that is showing up to a limited number of Kobo customers as an optional update. Here’s what it’s for, what we’ve learned so far, and what happens next:

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week, when you visit kobo.com, you may get an "are you human" challenge. Why? We are getting *hammered* by bot traffic right now. Some of our AI friends are just crushing our search, running huge numbers of queries. So we're taking steps to make sure the site works for all of our reading humans

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're already Bluesky, you probably won't care, but the social gods reached down from Meta Olympus and brought my Threads account back to life. The working theory: some combination of round-the-clock posting, four timezones in one week working across four devices, work VPNs vs. personal...

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Help this person find their Kobo Plus books!

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, that was fun. 🤷‍♂️ My account on Threads has been disabled for, as far as I can tell, talking about Kobo ereaders and answering customer questions? Guess I'll be spending more time here! @kobobooks.bsky.social

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A kobo-curious person over on threads asked the question “what does it mean when a kobo is listed as ‘refurbished’?” It’s a good question and it’s worth giving it a bit of a breakdown because it’s kinda cool. 👇

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The next month is going to be busy for us here at Kobo, but here's a little something that snuck out in advance: We know some of you have been driven slowly crazy by the way your reading progress on the Kobo app doesn't always correctly sync with your ereader...

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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thousands marched on Washington to defend voting rights…Ninety organizations signed on … Bernie Sanders…AOC… Martin Luther King III attended… The march they buried.

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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AIN’T GONNA LET YOU SEE THIS. Thousands are marching on Washington to defend voting rights; ninety organizations signed on, and Reuters sent photographers, yet apparently that wa...

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Okay, this is great news for all of us anyone raising a kid/teen/adult in the current in the late-stage capitalist world: Capital & Ideology by Thomas Piketty has been made into an absolute banger of a graphic novel. AND it is available on *Kobo Plus*. Link below...

the book cover of Capital & Ideology: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We made limited edition Kobo cases for Spring - they went fast! That told us a) you like gorgeous seasonal outfits for your ereaders; b) we should probably do something equally great for summer; c) if we make them pretty enough, we can get them into Elle Italia - first time for an ereader fit!

Limited edition cases coming for Kobo Clara Colour/BW and Libra Colour on August 14th.

A page from Elle Italia showing a beautiful Kobo ereader cover with other less literary objects that are otherwise equally desirable.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

End of Everything was an instant classic that I recommended to every science-lover (and end-of-the-world obsessive) I knew. This one is going to be a banger 😀

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

People asked, we answered. How books get ranked on Kobo 👇 (down, as in "look at this link down here", not "how books get ranked down")

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

this is insanely good value for your second-half-of-summer reading. And not just fiction. Cookbooks, poetry, history, small press awesomeness - it's the best.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Today’s question: How Canadian is Kobo? (Or… Is Kobo Canadian?) Let’s discuss. 🧵

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Mostly friends. Some absolute a-holes.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Storygraph + Kobo integration is LIVE!! Go to your Kobo account, look for Integrations, and start syncing your reading! (We said June and it *is* still June 😅)

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The return on taxpayer investment for libraries is insanely good: access to resources, information, technology, social mobility. Small towns need libraries. Come on Nova Scotia - you are better than this!

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

More Kobo Plus in more places 🍾🎉 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today we launched Kobo Plus in six new markets. New @kobobooks.bsky.social fans in Poland 🇵🇱, Romania 🇷🇴, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Philippines 🇵🇭, Greece 🇬🇷, and Luxembourg 🇱🇺 can now indulge in unlimited reading and listening. 1/

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Very interested to hear where this goes.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Next month: @kobobooks x @the.storygraph now with reading activity sync-ing from your Kobo ereader. Why? a) StoryGraph is awesome - just a great group of people to work with with a very similar vision of what a great reading life looks like;

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

😕 🧑‍🌾

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The best way to start the day: find out that you have been added to a Bluesky list called “Joy” that appears to include Scottish poetry, Mark Carney political updates, videos of seals, Zelensky appreciation, Halifax crime updates, and Nova Scotia Power outage reports. Life goal achieved ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/04/2026

Push the boat out, compañeros, push the boat out, whatever the sea… —Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty”: a poem written for his own 80th birthday Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) was born #OTD, 27 April – a 🎂 🧵 #poem #poetry 1/14 www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

At Eighty
by Edwin Morgan

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are,
the enemy of us all makes sure of it!
Mariners, keep good watch always
for that last passage of blue water
we have heard of and long to reach
(no matter if we cannot, no matter!)
in our eighty-year-old timbers
leaky and patched as they are but sweet
well seasoned with the scent of woods
long perished, serviceable still
in unarrested pungency
of salt and blistering sunlight. Out,
push it all out into the unknown!
Unknown is best, it beckons best,
like distant ships in mist, or bells
clanging ruthless from stormy buoys.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New York, we are BACK! Can't wait for the Kobo crew to meet up with Kobo fans, ebook fans, and reading fans. So much cool stuff: a spring surprise that we are unveiling there, goodies we are giving away, a chance to touch and try Kobo ereaders, all in our cozy Booth 537 in Hall 3! See you there! ❤️

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

All the medieval historians are finally getting their time to shine! 10/10

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

First, I'm pouring one out for a PR team in Seattle that's having a really rough day. Hang in there you crazy kids. Now let's see who needs some Kobo questions answered... 😂 #kobo #kindle

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a picture of a cat hanging on a bar with the words hang in there below it

ALT: a picture of a cat hanging on a bar with the words hang in there below it

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Posting about ereader longevity and Kobo inspires friends to show all of the Kobo's they own. It's the best. Please note Kobo Mini on the right from 2013 - the love people have for the Mini will never die ❤️

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Today’s burning question: how long does Kobo support its ereaders? And by support I mean how long they get updates, patches, security updates, and bug fixes to keep working. Short answer: a freakishly long time. Long answer below. 🧵

a whole lot of very good looking ereaders going back to the dawn of Kobo ereading in 2010

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m sure there is a witty metaphor to describe the process of trying to move 100,000 photos from Google Photos to Apple Photos, but I’m too exhausted to find it. It is shrivelling my will to live.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026

Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026

Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Was this excellent article at one point the Number 1 trending article on @theverge.com ? Affirmative. Did it *stay* at no.2 even after the Apple MacBook Neo announcement? Indeed it did. Such is the power of the Kobo Remote. No one can take it away from us 😂

The best headline ever written about a Kobo Remote, from theverge.com

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” MRNA vaccines! Solar, wind and tidal power! Cancer immunotherapies! Space telescopes! Desert stabilization planting programs! Fusion research! Alzheimer's research! (And a few really nice reading technologies that aren't bad either...)

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

What a game! Sid goes down hurt and the whole team finds a new gear. Guys in supporting roles become instant stars. And Binnington continues to build his place in the pantheon of Canadian goalies. 🇨🇦 #TeamCanada #Olympics2026

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Back-to-back Canadian hockey is giving me everything I need this morning. Canadian women absolutely handled the Finns, dusting off after the US, and now Canadian men are up and you can see Connor McDavid just vibrating off his skates to get in there and mix it up. Set the tone!! 🇨🇦

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Loving this Express review. --> "after using the Kobo Remote, I think I get it. And hey, if there’s one screen in my life that it’s not so bad to be staring at, it’s my Kobo's." Yes, you don't think you need it. Yes, you should have it anyway. We're in the small, joyful improvements business.

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I tried the Kobo Remote, the viral e-book gadget that keeps selling out

The Kobo Remote is the e-reader accessory I scoffed at before enjoying, but you probably don't need one.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Going through the Toronto international terminal today is a *scene. People headed to Milan for the Olympics, so much Canadian flag gear everywhere. Folks have dug out their old stuff from 2010 or 2014. it’s pretty fantastic. 🥰🇨🇦

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No one is endorsing my Olympic addition: "Moguls, but one out of every 10 moguls is actually a snow-covered wild boar". 🐗 It's entertaining *and* Italian. The Olympic Committee lacks vision and I'm a little hurt.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Here's Connor McDavid on representing Canada and making me all misty before #TeamCanada even hits the ice: "And I remember looking around and there was Sid, Marchy, Doughty. And I really just remember how calm they were. They weren’t afraid of the moment." www.theplayerstribune.com/connor-mcdav...

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Dear Canada | By Connor McDavid

I want to get back there again, whatever it takes.

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Canada 🇨🇦 wins vs. Czechia in mixed doubles curling! Decisive win by Canada, and a disappointing performance by CBC Gem that we're really hoping gets sorted out before things get rolling on Friday. 👍

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

For anyone who is doing @profgalloway.com's economic protest #resistandunsubscribe February, it's the perfect time to give Kobo a try: ebooks, audiobooks, Kobo Plus, the most gorgeous ereaders, all from generally non-problematic Canadians. Give it a month. There's a whole other world out here 😀

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Please note: this account flips to a #WinterOlympics2026 Team Canada 🇨🇦 fan account starting Feb 4th. I'll still help out with ereaders and anti-fascism or whatever, but only if you're also willing to hear about the Canadian women's hockey team, downhill skiing snow conditions, and so much curling...

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