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Originally Posted by JSWolf

The solution is to install Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1 and authorize it. Install the latest version of Calibre. Install the latest version DeDRM plugin from The Apprentice Alf blog. Once the DeDRM plugin is install in Calibre, configure it to remove the DRM from ePub. Then decide if you want to read ePub or KePub. If you want to read KePub, install the KoboTouchExtended Driver and use that to load eBooks to your Kobo.
There are other things you'll want to setup in Calibre like collections and such. But you can find threads here about Calibre. Or start a new thread asking what to configure and what plugins to install.

I used Calibre and DeDRM a lot in the past. DeDrm was quite the challenge to figure out how to use. I hope it's at least a bit easier to install now. At the time I was crazy enough that when I'd bought a book shot full of typos, if there was a pattern to them I'd open them in an ePub editor and fix the damn' typos via regex search/replace.

On the Kobo itself, all of the book files' names are GUIDs (no .epub or other extension), making it something of a challenge to figure out which is which book—what a bizarre approach they've taken.

Is it those same "GUID-named" files that you copy manually from the device into some subdirectory on the computer, then open them in Calibre?

Thanks!