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Originally Posted by davidfor

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.

Ok—that did mostly solve the problem of not getting the book to sync on the Kobo. Procedure: Go to Kobo account online; follow your previous instructions to download the book—the only option I seemed to have was to download an .ACSM file. Open the newly downloaded .ACSM file in ADE on the laptop. Find the control that enables you to copy the book to the Kobo. (There are two places in the ADE software where that option appears. It works in one location and not in the other—good testing there, Adobe. But I'll take what I can get.)

The cover art written to the device is inferior to the original art. For some reason it doesn't correctly fit the dimensions of the book's icon in the Kobo library as it once did in the past. Peculiar—but at least it's there and can be read.

But there's now a big difference between how it "works" now and how it appeared before the Kobo "disappeared" it. When I first downloaded this book months back, all of the usual typographic controls worked, including one that I use in most books: switch the alignment style from full left/right justification to flush-left/ragged-right. That option has worked for every book I've used so far on the Kobo, including all of my side-loaded books. This one book I've finally been able to get back onto the Kobo is the only one in which the switch-to-flush-left command doesn't work. Every other typographic control works, but not that one. Weird.

I opened it in both ADE's reader and the Kobo app on the laptop. Neither program seems to have an alignment feature at all. What remarkably crude tools. (How much do they pay developers to write such stuff? Those programs are way cruder than the original Kindle software.)

Any thoughts on how I might restore the book's "willingness" to accept all possible typographic controls?

Thanks again.