Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 09-13-2020, 09:46 PM   #1887
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Originally Posted by adrianf View Post
Running away from Amazon, I have been recommended Kobo. In fact, I am not even that surprised to see Kobo using DRM as much as Amazon, trying to sell only «best-sellers», etc..

Anyway, I have to apologise to all present here for a longer time, for my pretty primitive question. My excuse is, that I downloaded «Kobo Desktop Edtion» for macOS 10.15.6 only a few days ago, when I bought my first 5 books in the Kobo website.

Is it any general «sticky» guidance, how to use the «Kobo Utilities» Calibre plug-in to import into Calibre for macOS the Kobo books I have recently bought?
Alternatively, it might be useful also for other late-comers to this plug-in some sort of «help» file.
Many thanks to everybody, especially for bearing with my basic question.
You are mixing things up here. And nothing mentioned here has any relation to the Kobo Utilities plugin.

The ACSM file has nothing to do with the Kobo desktop application or calibre. It is used by Adobe Digitial Editions to allow it to download the book. Once that has been done, you can add the book directly to the device using ADE. Or you can add it to calibre if you have the appropriate DRM handling plugins installed. With these plugins are installed, the books are added to calibre in the same way as books downloaded in other ways.

The Kobo DRM and desktop application is different. This Kobo desktop application downloads the books directly and stores them. If you connect the Kobo device, it can put the book onto the device. If you want it in calibre, you need the Obok plugin. This reads the database used by the Kobo desktop application and and can add the books to the calibre library. It can remove the DRM if necessary.

The DRM related plugins are available from the Apprentice Alf site. And any further discussion on how they work cannot be done here.
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