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Originally Posted by davidfor
Calibre does nothing with DRM except tell you the book has it. If it mentioned ADE, it would have been a message about you needing to use ADE, not that your machine wasn't registered. And calibre has absolutely no support for DRM removal. This can be done using the plugins in the DRM tools package that is available separately.
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That was probably it. I tried opening those books in ADE and it gave me some different error message and asked for a user name and password. (ADE recognized my Kobo perfectly well.) I no longer remember where I got those books from; they weren't in the ADE library.
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You have that backwards. For epubs, Kobo renders the start of the book and uses the first page for the cover. For kepubs, the cover image is found from the metadata and extracted.
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For the series that had all "white" covers, the first page was just white. This wasn't a problem when I transferred them as Epubs, as there was metadata, but when I transferred them as Kepubs, they came over with "white" covers. The books with "white" covers had a DRM issue. For some other Kepubs, the "cover" was just plain text even though the first page in the file (as seen in Calibre) was the cover.
I had some word files converted to Epub where the first page was just a really boring page, and I simply attached a cover and it worked as Epubs. Something is weird.
That was all kinds of confusing. It doesn't really matter, since I was able to solve the problem (at least for almost all of the books, but five) by polishing the books. The metadata and first page matched, so it doesn't matter which one Kobo looks at, they're both the same now.