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Old 01-11-2021, 07:49 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by marst View Post
I have never seen a way of downloading a book to the PC from a Kobo site, outside the Kobo app for Windows. How is this done?
Click "My Account" and then "My Books". That displays all the books you have purchased from Kobo. Click the three dots next to each book and choose "Download". And follow the prompts.
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I do have the Kobo app for Windows but I don't see anything in it that indicates synchronizing the Kobo device itself to the Windows version. It is a very crude program. I can definitely download some of the books I'm missing into the Windows Kobo program—but how do I transfer them to the device?
Did you have the device connected when running the desktop application? When it is connected, the application will sync the device in the same way it does over WiFi. There will also be an "Ereader" tab and you can change which books are on the device.
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Other devices in our house always connect to the wifi and the connection is very fast.
I don't think the Kobo devices are very fast over WiFi. I assume it is at least partly the low-end hardware in the devices. But, it could be the hardware is slow doing the work the device does when handling the books. Probably the best test would be to use the browser to download a large book.
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Up to now, this Kobo continues to tell me that I need to set up Adobe Digital Editions to read certain books—even though I did already register the device with ADE.
I only have one of my ereaders authorised for ADE at the moment. It worked fine the other day when I used ADE to put books on it. I think the times I have had problems, I either just deauthorised the device and authorised it again. But, I have had to do a signout of the Kobo account on the device at least once. I don't normally worry as I either read the copy downloaded directly to the device or strip the DRM.
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Unfortunately, the device is too old to be returned for warranty repair or replacement.

As an experiment I tried to side-load a book file that I had downloaded from the Windows Kobo app—but the device did not "see" the file.
That won't work unless you add an extension (".epub" for it to be treated as an epub or ".kepub.epub" for a kepub) and it is DRM free. Putting it in the .kobo/kepub directory won't work.
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