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Old 01-14-2022, 01:00 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The best way to archive your Kobo eBooks is to download them as ePub. That requires doing this one at a time. There's no way to bulk download them.
A rather laughable statement in light of my experience today. I downloaded 6 epubs from Kobo. After metadata/cover update, I opened them in Sigil to see if I wanted to do any modifications before reading them.

5 out of the 6 downloaded using the My Books action menu had chapters that started like this:

Spoiler:
Code:
<head>
  <title>Chapter 6</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/media.css"/>

<!-- kobo-style -->
<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/javascript" src="../js/kobo.js"/>
<style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/css" id="koboSpanStyle">.koboSpan { -webkit-text-combine: inherit; }</style>

</head>
<body>
   <section id="chapter-6" class="element element-bodymatter element-container-single element-type-chapter element-with-heading element-with-heading-image" role="doc-chapter" epub:type="chapter">
    <div class="heading heading-with-title heading-with-image">
      <div class="heading-contents">
        <div class="title-subtitle-block title-block-title-is-element-number">
          <div class="element-number-block">
          </div>
          <div class="title-block">
            <h1 class="title case-upper"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.1.1">6</span></h1>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="heading-image-block heading-image-aspect-wide heading-image-block-after-title-and-subtitle">
          <div class="heading-image-size-container heading-image-width-500">
            <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.2.1"><img src="images/chapter_heading.png" alt="" class="heading-image-image"/></span>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="text" id="chapter-6-text">
      <p class="first first-in-chapter first-full-width"><span class="first-phrase"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.3.1">


Basically, it would appear that either Kobo is serving up their preprocessed kepubs or the authors/publishers/formatters are supplying their epubs in kepub format.
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