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Originally Posted by darryl
Give it a try. If you get stuck, post with all the details you can about the problem and either I or someone else here should be able to help. Otherwise, post anyway to let us know that you have succeeded.
However, I do urge you to consider eschwartz's excellent advice and look at removing the DRM. Whilst you are very wise to download the epub files to protect yourself from Kobo failing in the future, these epub files are nevertheless held hostage by DRM. They are to this extent dependant on, in this case, the future availability of programs that read files with this DRM. Kobo is now owned by Rakuten, a huge Japanese Corporation. I don't know that their failure is any more or less likely than that of Adobe. Aldiko and other apps compatible with DRM are of course much smaller concerns. EPub itself is an open, published standard. If not tainted with DRM, you can actually unzip them and read the contents in, say, a web browser. You can see for yourself. Try unzipping one of your epubs. If it is tainted with DRM, the actual book content will be gibberish. Without DRM, you will be able to read the html contents in a normal browser.
Many of us are a touch paranoid on this topic, including yourself, since you have downloaded your Kobo files as epubs. What I would suggest is that you become just slightly more paranoid, and liberate your epubs from DRM. Always assuming, of course, that you can do so legally in your jurisdiction.
A little suggestion to ease you into it. Seeing as you are buying from Kobo, install Kobo desktop and sync it to your library if you have not already done so. Then install Calibre. Then install the Obok plugin following the directions here http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0...es-wont-allow/. Then run the Obok plugin. The result from this quick and simple process is that you will have epub files of all of your Kobo books in Calibre without DRM, ready to download to just about any device, convert to any other format etc.
Should take you no more than 5 minutes. |
I'm the type who don't like to install unnecessary software, not unless I absolutely have to. So I did not install Kobo Desktop, I didn't think I need it, on the computer, I was able to download the e-pub from ADE and ADE also let me read the books on my computer, so I didn't need Kobo Desktop. For the Kobo ereader, I sync/download books into the Kobo e-reader through wifi. If I need Kobo Desktop for any other reason, particularly in my Calibre project, please let me know.
I'm going to consider giving the Calibre a try, the link you provide is helpful, it seems to be for kepub but none of my Kobo books are in this format. They are all Adobe DRM ePub, not unless it is the same as kepub. So that obok thing may not be applicable in my case.
I'll post back on the results of either the Aldiko or Calibre, I'm going to see which app is better for reading and try that app out first. Before I do that, I need to get myself familiarize with the Samsung Galaxy S5 that I just bought. I didn't get the Galaxy S6 because it does not support an external SD card and the battery is non-removable.
Thanks again for the guidance. I'm pretty sure I will have questions later.