kobo reader app: importing books

mr_nobody · 01-08-2012, 05:34 PM

I have a question about the kobo reader app. Specifically, when you import books, do they get copied somewhere on the sd? The reason I ask is I figured I now had duplicate copies after importing everything to aldiko and I thought if I used the "Remove Local Data" option in kobo, it would remove all the books from the kobo app and free up some disk space. It did remove the books but I don't see any change in free disk space. I'm wondering if they are hiding somewhere (or does the app in fact not make copies of books it imports?). Thanks.

Cdesja5 · 01-08-2012, 06:52 PM

from what I see on my vox, your kobo books are in the kobopegasus folder, in the epub folder. I only have 1 there, I prefer to read in Aldiko as well so I have paused the downloads for my kobo library and loaded them all from calibre to prevent duplication.

mr_nobody · 01-08-2012, 07:20 PM

But when I poked around in that folder, there weren't any actual epub files there...just a bunch of metadata related stuff.

[edit]: Oh, and when I used "Remove Local Data", it did empty out that folder.

01-08-2012, 05:34 PM	#1
mr_nobody Evangelist Posts: 440 Karma: 26671 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kobo mini, nexus 7 (2012), kobo vox	kobo reader app: importing books I have a question about the kobo reader app. Specifically, when you import books, do they get copied somewhere on the sd? The reason I ask is I figured I now had duplicate copies after importing everything to aldiko and I thought if I used the "Remove Local Data" option in kobo, it would remove all the books from the kobo app and free up some disk space. It did remove the books but I don't see any change in free disk space. I'm wondering if they are hiding somewhere (or does the app in fact not make copies of books it imports?). Thanks.

01-08-2012, 06:52 PM	#2
Cdesja5 Wizard Posts: 1,117 Karma: 2094306 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Montreal, Canada Device: Lots and lots of electronic gadgets...	from what I see on my vox, your kobo books are in the kobopegasus folder, in the epub folder. I only have 1 there, I prefer to read in Aldiko as well so I have paused the downloads for my kobo library and loaded them all from calibre to prevent duplication. Last edited by Cdesja5; 01-08-2012 at 06:55 PM. Reason: typos...

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01-08-2012, 07:20 PM	#3
mr_nobody Evangelist Posts: 440 Karma: 26671 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: kobo mini, nexus 7 (2012), kobo vox	But when I poked around in that folder, there weren't any actual epub files there...just a bunch of metadata related stuff. [edit]: Oh, and when I used "Remove Local Data", it did empty out that folder.

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