Thread: Mobi Support in Kobo?
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Old 02-06-2018, 06:27 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by u238110 View Post
I just tried uploading a .mobi to my new Kobo (Kobo Aura (N514KUBKKEP, firmware 4.7.10.413)) and nothing happened in Calibre when I clicked Send to device. Calibre had prompted me to auto convert my ebook, but I declined. Calibre didn't tell me why it was giving me such a proposition or what format it would convert to, so why should I have?

Since sending the ebook to my device did nothing, I tried Calibre's proposed auto convert and it was revealed that this feature was set to convert the ebook to .epub and this process successfully uploaded the ebook to my device.
Each device driver has a list of supported formats. For the KoboTouch driver, the default list does not include MOBI. This is because, while the Kobo devices support MOBI, it is generally better to convert to epub rather than use them. If you want to use a MOBI book on the Kobo device, open the KoboTouch driver configuration and select MOBI in the list of supported books. You might see a prompt about support, but just accept it

And the autoconvert during sending converts books in unsupported formats to the first format in the list of supported formats for the driver.
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