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Airlane1979 · 06-08-2021, 03:44 AM

I've had my Kobo Touch for years and I recently wanted for the first time to read books on a Micro SD card. I copied a set of non-DRM books from my laptop and checked the card was okay with them. Then I turned off my Touch, inserted the card and turned it on. But there seemed to be no way to access the card.

I chatted with Kobo Help and they told me "ok, but ashamedly the eReader can only read books added with the kobo store or ADE, not books directly added to the SD card" and "ok, then I do sorry for this but the policies have changed and this is how kobo works now, I recommend you to try to change your device, we've actualized a lot of procedures since the kobo touch was released, sorry".

Can anyone confirm that Kobo Touch readers used to read non-DRM books from a card but no longer can do this? It's the kind of mean trick that Apple would pull, and it seems Kobo as well.

06-08-2021, 03:44 AM	#1
Airlane1979 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: Kobo Touch 1	Reading books on Micro SD card I've had my Kobo Touch for years and I recently wanted for the first time to read books on a Micro SD card. I copied a set of non-DRM books from my laptop and checked the card was okay with them. Then I turned off my Touch, inserted the card and turned it on. But there seemed to be no way to access the card. I chatted with Kobo Help and they told me "ok, but ashamedly the eReader can only read books added with the kobo store or ADE, not books directly added to the SD card" and "ok, then I do sorry for this but the policies have changed and this is how kobo works now, I recommend you to try to change your device, we've actualized a lot of procedures since the kobo touch was released, sorry". Can anyone confirm that Kobo Touch readers used to read non-DRM books from a card but no longer can do this? It's the kind of mean trick that Apple would pull, and it seems Kobo as well.