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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The problem is that they had to pry it out of Kobo's desktop software by manually rooting through directories that are often hidden by the OS (or with a DRM removal tool) just to get a proprietary mess of a file (that should have been a regular-old, directly- and easily-downloadable, DRM-Free epub) into calibre in the first place. That's the problem.
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But the Obok plugin for calibre isn't just a DRM removal tool, is it? For DRM-free books it serves as the convenient means to avoid
'prying it out of Kobo's desktop software by manually rooting through directories...', with the added benefit that any internal metadata is correctly transferred to calibre (at least it was for this particular book).
My whole process was:
- Open Kobo Desktop, find the book in the store, press DOWNLOAD button. Close Kobo Desktop.
- Open calibre, click Obok, find book in GUI DRM-free list (with sensible names), press OK. It's now in calibre as an epub with a sensible name and some metadata.
- (purely optional for this particular book) Tidy up the internal Kobo-fication with Modify Epub.
- Do whatever else is normally done with any other new epub in calibre (e.g. error-checking).
- Use calibre/CalibreCompanion to send to eink/Android device. Open book. Read.
... so if the above is considered 'onerous' then I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about what constitutes a PITA.
BTW, as an epub-only reader, my process when getting a new book (with/without DRM) from Amazon is no easier or faster.