This is fantastic news. I've been thinking of upgrading my old Kindle to a Kobo model— I like the physical page turn buttons and I think would make a lot of use of the native support for Libby/Overdrive.
But yeah, this really seals the deal in terms of which ecosystem I'd rather be investing in going forward.
Yeah I'm really looking forward to that; I do the Adobe digital editions -> Calibre dance but it's basically just piracy at that point and super inconvenient to boot.
Happy Kobo user here. I was able to load up all my books from Calibri with zero friction. I've never bought from the Kobo store and it has never caused me any problems. Very user friendly compared to Amazon's ecosystem, which has literally deleted purchased books off users' devices[1].
Is there a good way to read your own books that you load yourself, across mobile (iOS specifically) and the Kobo hardware? That has always been what's kept me tied to Kindle. The iOS app isn't great, but the "email to Kindle" feature at least lets me send my own ePubs and keep them synced across both pieces of hardware.
If you can put it into epub or PDF you can upload it as a file to the Kobo pretty easily. It's perhaps not as easy as "email to Kindle" admittedly, but I care about file ownership.
But yeah, this really seals the deal in terms of which ecosystem I'd rather be investing in going forward.