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Originally Posted by davidfor
On Windows, the Kobo desktop application downloads the books to "c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Kobo\Kobo Desktop Edition\kepub". The books downloaded are kepubs and might have DRM. The filenames are identifiers rather than names and the files do not have extensions. If you intend to add the books to calibre, you are better to use the Obok plugin that is part of the DRM removal tools.
You can also download the book from the Kobo store. In this case, it will be the epub. For books with DRM, ADE will be used to download the book. For DRM free books, the epub will be downloaded directly.
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Thank you to all who answered.
I did find a number of files in
c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Kobo\Kobo Desktop Edition\kepub
and indeed they look like this :
466ba9fd-0ade-4a4d-a9e3-1ab932c417f5 (no extension name)
I do use Calibre and will follow your advice in due course, but for the time being, I would like to understand what those files are. What is a kepub ? Is it a proprietary format only readable by a Kobo reader or app ?
Do I understand correctly that you don't get the same file if you synchronize from Kobo Desktop and if you download from the website ? (There does not seem to be a Download command in Kobo Desktop.)
I tried to download that free book from the site, and all I got was a file called URLLink.acsm (not an .epub), which cannot be opened by any of the ebook readers installed on my PC. Is this the type of file which can only be opened by Adobe Digital Editions ?
What I'm trying to do, is make sure any books I have bought from Kobo (or retrieved as free books) reside on my PC, and not only on Kobo's server ; that I can read them even if Kobo goes bust some day ; or if they don't like me anymore and close my account for whatever reason (or none) ; or if they try to zap my books from a distance with a huge laser beam (or something).
Is this possible ?