View Single Post
Old 06-06-2014, 11:44 PM   #665
doubleshuffle
Unicycle Daredevil
doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.doubleshuffle ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
doubleshuffle's Avatar
 
Posts: 13,944
Karma: 185432100
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains
Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marbles View Post
I am not sure if this is the same thing but here goes. I purchased a book from Kobo and when I went to download it to ADE so that I could put it on a SD card it did not have that option anymore. When I contacted Kobo they told me that it was because the publisher had put it on the site as an ePub3 file. I was somewhat ticked because I have ereaders that are full and I like to use a SD card. Yet I can go to other websites and download the same book to ADE. Hmm any help here.
That is a much-discussed Kobo issue: they don't tell you which format a book is in before purchase. Some are only available as kepubs so you can only get them on your reader by synchronizing with Kobo Desktop. Others (I think those that have neither "eReaders" nor "Blackberry" listed under "Read this on") will work only on tablets.

The only way to determine if a book is available as a standard epub is getting a sample. If that shows as "Adobe Epub" in your library, you are on the safe side. It's a royal PITA, and I once thought that by contacting customer service about the format of every single book I wanted to buy, I could get them to provide proper format info again, but Kobo's vogonesque obliviousness to reasonable customer demands has won, and I stopped doing that.
doubleshuffle is offline   Reply With Quote