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Old 05-02-2016, 10:54 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Alpha o View Post
I also need an easier way to convert the kepubs. I read what was posted, searched but all the articles didn't make any sense and some of it was also older - things have been updated since. The books I bought before the last update to the Glo seem to be on the ereader.
The best thing to do is download the books directly from your library on the Kobo site. This will download the epub version either directly to you computer (for non-DRM) or using ADE (for DRM). Then you add these books to your library.

The next best choice is to use the Obok plugin to fetch the kepubs. It can read them from where the Kobo desktop application stores them, or from the device. When it does this, the books are added as epubs. You can use the Modify ePub plugin to cleanup the kepub extras. The Obok plugin is included in Aprentice Alf's tools.
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They say EPUB in Calibre, not "I'm reading" which is the way the newer ones came it.
I'm not sure what you mean here. The only place I can think of to see "I'm reading" is as a collection in the device view when the Kobo device is connected. This is a pseudo-collection for all books on the device that are in the "Reading" state. These will show a percent read in the library list and be shown if you select "Reading" in the filter. This could be any type of book, but, sometime kepubs get downloadloaded and marked as 1%.
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I'll have to double check those somehow in Calibre. If you can open the book in Calibre's reader, then it is in the memory as a book and not a digital link?
If you try to add a kepub to the calibre library from the device list, you will get a message calling it a "virtual book". It isn't strictly virtual but that is a common message. In this case it means that calibre doesn't know how to add that book to the library. When this was first done, calibre had no support for kepubs. There is some support now through plugins, but I haven't changed this in the driver as there are still issues with this. DRM is the major one. As a rule, if you can open the book from the device list, you can add it to the calibre library. But, that will almost definitely mean it was sideloaded and not a book downloaded from Kobo. The better marker for this is that the filename for downloaded kepubs is the file name. When you select one in the device list, the directory will include ".kobo/kepub" and the filename will be random letters and numbers and it won't have an extension.
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