Thread: [Kobo] Some books 'are virtual and cannot be added...'
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Old 06-27-2021, 10:19 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by ChrisOfTheOT View Post
Afternoon David - after much malarkey, I gave up trying to add the books. Obok didn't see any DRMs in those titles and they still will not 'add to library'.

Instead, I re-downloaded the various titles. I didn't realise this was possible, but it turns out that the Kobo Desktop program is, approximately, useless. I found that if I log into my account online there is an option to download each book, which I have done, and note that the file names are all different. I assume I messed something up somehow (??!) but the newly downloaded titles have all been absorbed into calibre okay.
The Kobo desktop is mainly useful for downloading books. It should download the same as on the device as long as both use the same Kobo account. There are some options, that can affect what is downloaded and shown. I have all these left alone so that everything downloads and is displayed.

The library is the alternative to download the books. From there, you will download epubs rather than the kepub versions downloaded to the device or desktop application. The names that are suggested by the server when downloading the books are ids of some sort. I always change them to something In understand so I can find them later. This is for books without DRM. If the books have DRM, you will need ADE to download the book.
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However, I also downloaded several Open University titles (DRM free) from Amazon into the Kindle desktop (v1.17, or whatever is the best, old, version) as AZW files. But they will not convert or get sent to the Kobo: calibre says there is no suitable file format and that DRM is a problem. Obok does not see these as DRM files. I have dozens of AZW books converted to epub by calibre so have no idea what's going on here. (This DRM thing was also a problem with the old Kobo titles, before I re-downloaded them.)
Obok is only used for books with DRM from Kobo. There is a separate tool for books from Amazon. It is part of the same package that has Obok, but, has to be installed separately. But, calibre can handle DRM free AZW files. I don't deal with Amazon books frequently enough to be confident to suggest how to sort it out. But, have you installed the latest version of the tools? If you are using calibre 5.x, make sure you have updated the DRM removal tools.
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