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Old 01-19-2013, 02:20 PM   #1
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Wifi: Is there a way to copy the 100 free books from the device?

The Kobo WiFi (and, I believe, the original Kobo) come with a hundred public domain books stored in ROM; they can't be deleted from the device, but I'm wondering if there's a way to copy them FROM the device so that I can load them (selectively) on my Kobo Glo? I know I can get all these books free from other sources (including Gutenberg, which was the source Kobo used), but it would be convenient to have that big a library of classics in Kepub format available to my other Kobo readers. Suggestions? They don't show up if you plug the Kobo into a USB port. Thanks!
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I do seem to recall a zip that was available with the books in it. On the original Kobo when it was released, kePub files were stored within the database itself, and it wasn't until an upgrade that kEpubs were stored as separate files.

Some people felt that the quality of the free books was lower than those that had been made available here in the Patricia Clark Memorial Library.

I will look around my hard drive and see if I can find that old archive.
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And here is the original list of books
  1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  2. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  3. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  4. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  5. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  6. War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  7. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  8. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [Pere]
  9. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  10. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  12. White Fang – Jack London
  13. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  14. The Importance Of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  15. The Art Of War – Sun Tzu
  16. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
  17. The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult – Joseph Bédier
  18. Grimm’s Fairy Tales – The Brothers Grimm
  19. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  20. Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
  21. The Odyssey Of Homer – Homer, Translated By Alexander Pope
  22. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  23. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  24. The Last Of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  25. The Hound Of The Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
  26. Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater – Thomas De Quincey
  27. Prufrock And Other Observations – T. S. Eliot
  28. The Turn Of The Screw – Henry James
  29. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  30. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  31. On The Origin Of Species – Charles Darwin
  32. The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas, Pere
  33. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  34. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
  35. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  36. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
  37. Cyrano De Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
  38. Japanese Fairy Tales – Yei Theodora Ozaki
  39. Ulysses – James Joyce
  40. The Mayor Of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
  41. The Iliad – Homer
  42. Anne Of Green Gables – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  43. The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
  44. Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
  45. The Castle Of Otranto – Horace Walpole
  46. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
  47. Sense And Sensibility – Jane Austen
  48. Emma – Jane Austen
  49. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
  50. Irish Fairy Tales – James Stephens
  51. English Fairy Tales – Joseph Jacobs (Coll. & Ed.)
  52. The Arabian Nights Entertainments – Andrew Lang
  53. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
  54. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  55. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  56. The Phantom Of The Opera – Gaston Leroux
  57. Paradise Lost – John Milton
  58. The Return Of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
  59. Beowulf
  60. Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded – Samuel Richardson
  61. The Picture Of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  62. Peter Pan – James M. Barrie
  63. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
  64. The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle
  65. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  66. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  67. The Prince – Nicolo Machiavelli
  68. Around The World In 80 Days – Jules Verne
  69. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
  70. The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
  71. Book Of Nonsense – Edward Lear
  72. Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz – L. Frank Baum
  73. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  74. The Island Of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells
  75. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne
  76. Through The Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
  77. Myth, Ritual, And Religion, Vol. 1 – Andrew Lang
  78. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  79. The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie
  80. The Canterbury Tales And Other Poems – Geoffrey Chaucer
  81. The Man Who Knew Too Much – G.K. Chesterton
  82. The Lady Of The Lake – Sir Walter Scott
  83. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  84. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  85. The Princess And The Goblin – George MacDonald
  86. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
  87. The Call Of The Wild – Jack London
  88. The Sea Wolf – Jack London
  89. The Souls Of Black Folk – W. E. B. Du Bois
  90. Tales From Shakespeare – Charles And Mary Lamb
  91. Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  92. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
  93. The Republic – Plato
  94. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
  95. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  96. Twenty Years After – Alexandre Dumas, Pere
  97. The Prince And The Pauper – Mark Twain
  98. Four Arthurian Romances – Chrétien de Troyes
  99. Dubliners – James Joyce
  100. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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