One thing about Kobo:
If you buy directly from the Kobo website, you can get ePubs for that work with ADE as you stated. However, if you use the Kobo apps (PC, devices, etc), and buy the books through the apps, they are not stored as ePub files. They are instead stored in a database that the app uses. This will be transparent to those who use readers or devices that utilize the Kobo store and never need or want to transfer them, but anyone who wants to use the books on a device without the Kobo app will have to re-download the books as ePubs.
Fortunately, when this happened to me and I figured out what was going on, I was able to go to the Kobo site and download my purchases from there as ePubs without having to buy them again.
Hope all that made sense. Rainy days make my brain fuzzy.
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