Thread: Where to Buy Books for Kobo?
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Old 06-06-2021, 03:14 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by DaveLessnau View Post
I bought my first book from Kobo (DRM free), but I'm getting some odd behavior differences between what syncs to the Forma and what I download from Kobo to Calibre:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=339826

Is there some way to copy the synced version on the Forma directly to Calibre? EDIT: when I try to Add the book within Calibre from the Device, all I get is:

"calibre, version 5.20.0
Not Implemented: The following books are virtual and cannot be added to the calibre library:

E:\.kobo\kepub\bf6d5ca1-9ed8-4eb4-80f0-f0377e129e78"
Just to answer this, the very first reply to your original post tells you what can be done:

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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
If you do buy from Kobo and want to add the book to calibre, you have the choice of downloading the book via the Kobo desktop application and using the Obok plugin to add it to calibre. Or you can download the epub from the Kobo store. Books without DRM are downloaded directly and ADE is used for books with DRM.
It isn't a step-by-step instructions as that is not allowed here (for DRM removal). It works the same for DRM free books, so we can't give separate instructions for that.


What no one has said in the later posts is that the problem you are seeing comes from two sources. One is that the edition of the book that Kobo syncs to the device is not always the same as the epub edition. These can be updated independently. And Kobo does some processing of the book to produce the kepub version.

The other cause is the publisher or book creator. They have not built the ToC properly for the epub version. This is not uncommon. But, happily, it is becoming less common.
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