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Jimbr · 05-14-2020, 05:34 AM

Hello from Jim Jimbr.
Sorry to bother you all you all. I bought my wife a Kobo Clara ebook reader because she has been out of action after two bouts of major surgery and the the Covid19 lock down.
I was hoping she could down load ebooks from our local library. However our library does not support overdrive. This been the case I downloaded Calibre onto the computer in an attempt to get her some ebooks. Neither of us especially my wife are computer people.
The problem I have is this. If I find her a book she would like to read they usually end up on Amazon, Kobo or Google books. The down load option is not available, you have to go to their store and purchase the book unfortunately they down load directly into their own reading app and not into the Calibre app. How can I get these purchased books into Calibre? Also I have trouble with the search field it only accepts authors or book title cannot do a search on topic. Cannot find any free ebooks to download and again can only shearch on authors or book titles. I am an old author codger and am totally frustrated.
Kind Regards Jim.

05-14-2020, 05:34 AM	#1
Jimbr Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kobo Clara	Hello Hello from Jim Jimbr. Sorry to bother you all you all. I bought my wife a Kobo Clara ebook reader because she has been out of action after two bouts of major surgery and the the Covid19 lock down. I was hoping she could down load ebooks from our local library. However our library does not support overdrive. This been the case I downloaded Calibre onto the computer in an attempt to get her some ebooks. Neither of us especially my wife are computer people. The problem I have is this. If I find her a book she would like to read they usually end up on Amazon, Kobo or Google books. The down load option is not available, you have to go to their store and purchase the book unfortunately they down load directly into their own reading app and not into the Calibre app. How can I get these purchased books into Calibre? Also I have trouble with the search field it only accepts authors or book title cannot do a search on topic. Cannot find any free ebooks to download and again can only shearch on authors or book titles. I am an old author codger and am totally frustrated. Kind Regards Jim.