Thread: Help hard drive crash, getting non drm books off Kobo
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Old 04-05-2020, 01:59 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Purrceyz View Post
Hi,

I recently had a hard drive crash and had to reinstall Calibre. I lost my Calibre library (it was on the c drive).

Is there any way to recover the books from my Kobo? When I look into my kobo Aura with Windows 10, all I see are empty directories with no epubs.
If you look at your Aura, inside the .kobo directory, do you see a .kepub directory with a mass of files with alphanumeric names such as "0edb5a67-7b5e-4db7-af69-57ead1d87236"? Those are the ebook files synced to your Aura. If you install the obok plugin, it will let you import those files into calibre with human readable names.

You can also got to your account on Kobo and download the books as epubs from My Account => My Books and click on the ... under Actions. This does need you to do this for each book so recovering any synced books from your Aura would be easier.
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