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Originally Posted by paulvro
Hi everyone here,
I purchased this reader for my wife (Mother's Day present) and because we're elderly people I selected the one with the biggest and most detailed screen. Earlier we received from friends all kinds of books in MOBI format via email so I assumed it would be easy to just put them in so my wife (of American origine) could start reading right away.
Well, nothing is less true. Inundations of stuff that all want you to buy books from them and instructions from the online manual did absolutely nothing. They pretended that when connecting the Reader to my PC it would autmatically show an explorer type screen to which you could copy and paste your books. Instead Explorer showed three directories and a lot of subdirectories, one of which named Kepub which sounded like the most likely candidate but no files that I transferred into that directory showed (I did include an epub file just in case MOBI was the problem) on the Reader.
Searching further I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5LikhTlAQ in which I was told how to install Adobe and register Adobe Digital Editions, with which I could then transfer my books.
However even though I transferred at least around 20 of these books, only one appears to be in my reader's library. And even that one cannot be read, I got some kind of statement that my adobe account didn't authorize me to read that book. Why none of the other books got even listed? Who knows... We live in Europe, perhaps these American books cannot be read outside of the USA? I have no idea, my wife, a retired teacher of English, and her friends and family in the US are of course all rather literary-minded.
I am totally a-technical and spent all day just trying to get this thing to work but short of an overwhelming amount of offers to buy books nothing seems to work. Now I fould on Youtube a film about this "calibre" software, I already downloaded the 64 bits software for my Windows 8.1 PC but I'm rather scared to go on and make things even worse.
I hope that I'm writing this in the right place, but is there anyone who can please help me with this whole matter? Is Calibre a software that one installes instead of the Kobo software or is it an app-like thing? Will there be a problem because I aready registered the Kobe Reader and also registered at Kobo software and at Adobe Digital Editions? In brief, our intention was to use it for epub and mobi files that friends have mailed us but I have not the slightest idea how. Is there either an "instruction for dummies" of someone who is kind and patient enough to tell me what to do? Or is the Reader unsuitable and should I return it to the store where I bought it?
By forehand many, many thanks! (and please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong thread, I assumed that the Kobo thread would be the right one).
PS: I see that Adobe Digital Editions created a new directory onto my my Aura One named Digital Editions in which all the transferred books are listed. Remarkable is that they all now have EPUB formats even though I entered almost all as being MOBI files. But the BIG QUESTION is why I can't see then in any kind of index of my Reader. |
Firstly don't panic, the Aura One is a great ereader and I'm sure it will be suitable for your wife.
It is possible to simply drag and drop files to the ereader using explorer.
The Kepub folder should only be used for storing books that are in the Kepub format. (Kepub is Kobo's own variation on the epub format. Kepub books come from the Kobo bookstore or another bookstore that has adopted their format)
eBooks in other formats including mobi format should be transferred to the main root of the ereader device or stored within folder/folders within the main root e.g. KOBOeReader (E: )
Things get a little more complicated if the eBooks you are trying to transfer are protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) this is outside the scope of my knowledge as I only use DRM free eBooks.
Do you know if these eBooks are DRM protected?
Hopefully someone here might be able to give you advice if this is the case.
Calibre is eBook management software that allows you to organize and transfer eBooks to your eReader. You can also use it convert eBooks to different formats. I find it very useful.
There are better qualified members who will be able to help you to a greater degree than my paltry efforts and you may get more help from the forum if you create a "New Thread" in the Kobo Forum as single posts can tend to get buried amongst all the traffic here.