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Originally Posted by veereihen6

I think I figured out the problem, I think it was me not checking off the "Attempt to support new firmware" in the device interface plugins in Calibre. I was then able to get the KA1 to read the kepub's. But i don't know why it would not see files dropped into the root directory directly....

Thanks guys!

Edit: something else from GeoffR's comments, I had initially set up the KA1 using Kobo Desktop. On the second try, I skipped that and just did a wifi setup.

The problem is then that you need to update your Calibre.