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Originally Posted by Telemachus
I can sympathize with your predicament it's very confusing to a newcomer but we'll take it one step at a time.
Try moving any books in the Kepub folder to the main root directory or create a new folder named "books" or something and put them there.
A very rough guide to adding books to your Kobo eReader can be found here... Click to open link
Once books are transferred and the eReader is ejected using windows "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media"
Remove the USB lead and the eReader should start to process the new content added, it looks for new files with the appropriate file extension and adds them to the device's database.
Then when you go to the menu button on the top left hand side of the screen and select "My Books" from the drop down menu you should see your eBooks displayed in your library.
You'll see it says "Books" just below that you should see it displays "Show:All" if it doesn't then touch "Show:" and a drop down menu should appear where you can select "Show:All"
Good luck, let me know how you get on. |
Thanks a million: as you might have read above somehow my problem was solved. As to the instructions you quoted: yes I saw them and that was the very first thing I tried. However, I wasn't prepared to be facing three subdirectories plus a couple of non-books related files in Windows Explorer.The idea to just ploink my books in the root didn't even come up in my mind, being an IBM computer user for decades you don't even think of doing something like that. And as it gave no indication that you could actually create a new directory that the reader then would consult I assumed that my books had to be written in some kind of books list. The only thing I found that remotely looked like a book lost was the kepub subdirectory so that's where I deposited the books in the first place. Well knowing that it wasn't quite right because some of the books had covers with images but all covers had the same name so they could never all be written into the same directory.
A last question perhaps: is there any way to discover if and how a book is DRM protected? So far I knew about DRM but that is Digital Radio Mondiale, the way to digitally broadcast on AM and Shortwave frequencies. That it had another totally different meaning I had no idea.