Thread: The Ultimate Kobo Tips & Tricks Thread
View Single Post
Old 01-31-2014, 10:25 PM   #290
davidfor
Grand Sorcerer
davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 24,905
Karma: 47303824
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos
Quote:
Originally Posted by achristinap View Post
My Mom and I both have a Kobo Glo but we each have separate profiles. We tend to read some of the same books and I hate for both of us to have to pay for the same book twice. I hooked up her Kobo and went to where the Kepub files are, copied them and pasted them on the desktop. I ejected her kobo and plugged my kobo in and cut and pasted those files into my Kepub folder of my kobo. Unfortunately, her books are not coming up on my kobo. How do I get her Kepub folders to work on my Kobo?
Strictly, you can't. The purchased kepubs are downloaded from the Kobo server. As part of this, the database on the device is updated to include information about the books. This includes the appropriate keys for the DRM that is on some of the books.

If the books are DRM free, adding the extension "epub" or "kepub.epub" will allow you to put the books onto her device and have them loaded. The different extensions tell the reader whether to treat the books as epubs or kepubs. If you do this, don't put them under the '.kobo" directory. The device does not look in that directory for sideloaded books.

You can also download most of the books as epubs from the Kobo store. If they are DRM free they can be put onto the device. If they have DRM, then they need to go through Adobe DRM to get onto an authorised device. Or you need to handle this DRM in other ways.

Finally, you can both use the same Kobo account on both devices. The problems with this are that both devices get all books and if both people are reading the same book, it can get confusing because the reading positions are synced via the Kobo server. If you want to handle it this way, you can probably talk to Kobo about moving the books from one account to another. I have had them do this for me when my account broke and I am fairly sure someone has reported doing it under similar circumstances to yours.
davidfor is offline   Reply With Quote