Google Account Connection

Connecting your Google account lets oboku's server keep access to the Google Drive books you added to oboku, so that it can reach them without your browser. It reaches only the files you picked in Google's file picker or opened with oboku, never the rest of your Drive.

The connection is optional. Without it, oboku reaches Google Drive through your browser, as before.

Note

No feature uses the connection yet: connecting has no visible effect until they arrive.

Connect

Open Integrations > Google, then tap Connect. In Google's window:

1. Choose the Google account you add your Drive books with. oboku reaches only the files picked with that account.
2. Allow every permission oboku asks for: your Drive files, and your email so the screen shows which account is connected.

The screen then shows the account and when you connected it.

Note

oboku's server keeps the access Google gives it, encrypted. It never leaves the server.

On a self-hosted oboku, Connect appears once the admin has set up Google, its client secret included. See Google.

Disconnect

Tap Disconnect your Google account, then confirm. oboku's server forgets its access to your Drive, and your books stay in your library.

Google still lists oboku among the third-party apps of your Google Account, so oboku keeps working with Google in your browser. To remove its access entirely, remove oboku from your Google Account's third-party connections.

Connect again

Google gives oboku lasting access only once. After you disconnect, remove oboku from your Google Account's third-party connections first, then connect again. Otherwise oboku says it already has access to this account and was not given a lasting one.