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Old 09-23-2010, 06:47 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Rothbardian View Post
"Kobo native format" isn't epub? AFAIK it only does epub and pdf, ne?
If you purchase and download books directly in the Kobo/Whitcoulls/Whatever desktop application they are stored on your computer as an sqlite database. In some proprietary internal format. On WinXP it's stored in "Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Whitcoulls\Whitcoulls Desktop Edition".

The desktop application is synchronized with the files from the Kobo website. As long as you're logged into the desktop application you can read the books on the computer without synchronizing with the website again. And you can also synchronize with the Kobo ereader.

Books downloaded in ePub format with ADE are moved to the Kobo in that format, but the Kobo when disconnected from the computer then internally converts them to the sqlite database format and deletes the ePub files.
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