[marst]

Hopefully this isn't a duplicate but the first attempt didn't appear in the forum. Trying again.

My questions might be answered within the forum — a search didn't yet turn up what I hoped to find. If there's a relevant thread here I'd love to find out. (Web searches so far turned up sites with incomplete and uninformative info.)

I've had a Forma for a few days. One reason I bought it: Video reviewers noted that ebooks and fonts can be side-loaded on the device. But how isn't clear yet. I copied a PDF file to what I thought should be the folder containing ebooks but it doesn't appear in the device's book list. It was done via a straight-up copy operation, at the command line after I'd connected the Kobo to the laptop. (Ebooks downloaded so far from Kobo's web site seem to be stored using GUIDs for the names, in a single subdirectory. That's where I copied the PDF from my hard drive.)

When I plug the Kobo into the laptop it becomes drive E:. Going to E: at the command line, then searching (for files of all possible attributes), I don't see anything resembling a font file. So if I had a .TTF or .OTF file, I'm not sure where it would go so that it could be recognized as a legit font selection within the Kobo reader menu.

So...how are "non-Kobo-downloaded" ePubs and PDFs and fonts side-loaded onto the Forma? [Edit: I had Calibre on this machine once. I haven't installed it again yet. Is Calibre required for sideloading?]