Liz99:
Happy I found your post, I had the exact same problem when I tried to transfer a number of ePub files over to my KOBO. I thought my KOBO was toast but then read on another thread (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83209 ) about this little tool,
http://dl.thekidintheclock.com/u/514...oBulkFixer.zip called the KoboBulkFixer.
Now your mileage may vary but what I did was test this tool on a few files with various settings until I cleared up the frozen KOBO processing new ...... problem.
For me, it worked best to use the Kobobulkfixer on an epub file with the setting, "delete CSS entirely? checked. I then just added the book to my library in my Adobe Digital Editions desktop prog and then dragged them over to my KOBO.
Now they all open perfectly and read beautifully. I tried this with Calibre and to be fair may not have tested it enough. When using the "fixer" and Adobe worked I stopped searching for an answer. I had mine and my KOBO which I was about to abandon, works great once again.
Good luck
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