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Originally Posted by Alpha o
I far prefer a plain old file tree.
When I looked at those books on the Kobo using windows explorer, there was no file extension. I looked in every file marked Kobo on the computer and saw nothing except stuff that reminded me of dll files or something saying fully parsed. Nothing that could be opened by another reader. No book as far as I was concerned.
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Plain old file tree? As you said, old. Time to move into the 21th century.
Given that you are using a Windows computer, you can open the files downloaded by the Kobo desktop app or on the Kobo eInk ereaders though many of the ones I have are DRMed so are not readable without running them through Obok. Install the Kobo desktop application, allow it to sync your files and then decrypt them using Obok -- use the Calibre Obok plugin and decrypt directly into your Calibre libraries. Yes, the file names that look like GUIDs are a bit odd but really saying they look like .dll files? Have you looked at Smashword's idea of an epub file naming convention?
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Originally Posted by Alpha o
I bought the damn book, I should have gotten an epub. Calibre would just read /open the book but would do nothing else with it. Couldn't unlock it or any of them using Obok.
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I vaguely seem to remember the old Kobo web interface had a download option. Either ePub or DRMed ePub in most cases -- it's been a couple of days and the old memory cells aren't what they used to be
. For the new library interface, click on the triple dots and export the file. Easy-peasy in either case.
As for decrypting from/on the device, that's not an option at this time.
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Originally Posted by Alpha o
I do read on an Acer tablet at night, and it's easier to go through Dropbox or move the SD card than bother with Kobo reader.
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Your choice. I seem to remember from looking on my Nexus, the Kobo app disassembled the zip format the ebook is normally stored in into it's individual files for storage which made things a bit messier.
As for reading on a tablet? I do use my Nexus or iPad for reading but the Kobo eInk ereader is my goto device for epub format ebooks.
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Originally Posted by Alpha o
I find a lot of Calibre to be a perfect pain. I am a fanboy of nothing. I simply don't need or care about all the info you can put in. Nor do I care about rewards for how fast or how many books I'm reading. I also don't annotate books. I do annotate how to guides and manuals.
You have the right to be a fanboy, I have the right to say it stinks.
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Given your whinging about Calibre elsewhere, while many of us find Calibre to be a very handy tool, you definitely qualify as not being a fanboy.
Some of us do care about the information we can attach to our ebooks though it seems few of us are able to agree on just what information is important. How fast I am reading or how many books I read are not of interest to me though those are items I see on my Kobo ereader home screen not in Calibre. Am I missing a special section in Calibre with that information?
Also, might I ask who has been forcing you to annotate your books as well as how to guides and manuals? Enquiring minds are eager to know more about the annotation police.