10-27-2014, 02:08 PM | #31 |
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I don't know what is up as far as compatibility. I looked over at Amazon and they do in fact have the same book for the same price there. So there must be some sort of compatible file for Amazon to be able to have it in Kindle format just as Kobo has it in their epub file.
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10-27-2014, 02:26 PM | #32 |
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It's a bit of a PITA, but once I got in the habit of adding the preview of books I'm thinking about buying to my Kobo library -- and making sure it says "Download options: Adobe DRM EPUB" beside that book in my library, I've never bought a surprise kepub-only book since.
I went to buy Jasper Fforde's Eye of Zoltar this morning, and the missing "Download options: Adobe DRM EPUB" sent me straight to Google books to get a proper epub. Crisis averted. I'm not going to flip over a couple of extra mouse-clicks (even though I agree these kepub-only books should be clearly identified in the product description). With B&N starting to shut the door on downloading/sideloading, I'm not willing to dump another epub retailer over a situation that I can easily avoid. Last edited by DiapDealer; 10-27-2014 at 02:30 PM. |
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Yep, that's what I was going to mention. Now that Sony readers have direct access to the Kobo bookstore, they need to find a system to flag those books that won't work on straight ePub devices.
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They were in the past and I haven't seen any firmware upgrade to address the issue. Sony Reader users have already had issues with this.
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10-27-2014, 04:02 PM | #38 |
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Kobo books are stored in Appdata/Local/Kobo/KDE/kepub folder. But they are in a Sqlite database file and cannot be loaded into Calibre without a certain tool.
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Open Explorer and type %appdata%
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Doesn't matter. You can't attack it that way, anyway. The file by itself wouldn't do you any good. The Sqlite database needs to be queried to get everything necessary (including the filename) for liberation to proceed.
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10-27-2014, 05:34 PM | #44 |
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Yep. I have it in the desktop app. Can't find it elsewhere though. Why must they make things so complicated?
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