I had a similar problem when I accidentally reformatted my Kobo. Lost all the free books.
Kobo support recommended I just add the free books into my Kobo library from the store website. All of the preloaded books are available in their store for free, same versions as were preloaded.
The Kobo desktop application will then download the books next time you update your library, and you can then sync them to your device.
While this sounds like a good solution, unfortunately the Kobo desktop application takes a very long time to download the books; over four hours. It seems their download speed is capped for free books. Note that cancelling and resuming the download corrupts the sqlite database and will require a download restart, as the Kobo app downloads all of the books as one file, and not separately.
Hence thank you for the torrent!
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