MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Kobo removed mobile device only eBooks from store how worried about future access?

PeterT · 12-17-2014, 01:03 PM

See many discussions on this in the Kobo forum. The issue is that when Kobo receive material from publishers that are detected as being epub3 format, their process results in a kEpub only format book with no ePub version available.

One solution that many use is to use a DRM removal tool on the material downloaded via Kobo Desktop and then treat the resulting content as a valid epub2 format ePub. Yes you might want to use a calibre plugin (Modify ePub I think) to strip out the spans and other things added by the kEpub format.

12-17-2014, 01:03 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,550 Karma: 79436716 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	See many discussions on this in the Kobo forum. The issue is that when Kobo receive material from publishers that are detected as being epub3 format, their process results in a kEpub only format book with no ePub version available. One solution that many use is to use a DRM removal tool on the material downloaded via Kobo Desktop and then treat the resulting content as a valid epub2 format ePub. Yes you might want to use a calibre plugin (Modify ePub I think) to strip out the spans and other things added by the kEpub format.