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Originally Posted by DaveLessnau
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Different concepts are being mixed up here. The Kobo Utilities plugin is a user plugin to do extra things with Kobo devices. It is not needed unless you want to use it.
The KoboTouchExtended driver is an extension of the built-in KoboTouch driver. If it is installed and active, it will automatically transform epubs to kepubs when they are sent to a Kobo device. This doesn't add the kepub to the calibre library.
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Looks like that also suggests the two KePub Metadata Reader and Writer plugins. I'll have to read through those threads.
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These are only needed if you are going to store kepubs in your calibre library. If you convert to them or get them from one of the very few sources that produced kepubs, you should do this. But, you should also have the Kepub conversion plugins as well to allow you to convert to or from kepub.
But, honestly, nothing is needed. All the plugins mentioned are extras. The built-in KoboTouch driver communicates fully with the Kobo devices. All you really need to do is plug the device in, select the books that you want on the device and press the send-to-device button. Calibre will do any conversions that are need and send the books to the device. Then you can read.
Once you have some books on the device, you can use it and decide what you like and don't. Then you can decide what other functions you want to use. For collections, the configuration is in the driver. If you want to try kepubs, you can try the extended driver. You can also decide if the default conversion to epub works for you, or if you need to tweak it somehow. The Kobo Utilities plugin is useful if you want to do things like store the reading status of the books and backup the devices database. It has lots of other function, but, those are probably the most common.
Changing the output profile is pretty much the only other thing to do. Choose "Tablet" or one of the others that do not resize the images during a conversion.