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Old 01-06-2026, 11:12 AM   #1
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Where are the books?

I am relatively new to using Kobo, having been a Kindle reader until recently. I do not have a Kobo device, but have downloaded the Kobo app to my Android devices - a Pixel phone and a Boox eReader. I am not sure that this sub-forum is for Kobo apps or just for the Kobo device so if I am posting in the wrong place please let me know.

One problem is that after I download a new book to my phone and Boox device I can not find it anywhere. I have looked in the Android folder under

Android -> data -> com.kobobooks.android

where I assume it should be, but it is not there on my phone or Boox. I know it is downloaded because if I put my devices in Airplane mode I can still read them, but where is it?

I have not tried this on an iPhone yet, although I may try this today. Can anyone point me to where the book actually is?

The other problem I have is that one of the books I downloaded does not display clearly when reading on my devices. I want to increase the contrast to fix the problem but there does not seem to be a contrast control in the Kobo app and I cannot find a system contrast control on my Android phone. Is there some hidden way to control the contrast in the Kobo app?

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Old 01-06-2026, 11:16 AM   #2
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If you want to remove the DRM, I don't think you can do that with the Android app. Download the books to your computer (there's a download link for each book in your Kobo library on the webpage).
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If you want to remove the DRM, I don't think you can do that with the Android app. Download the books to your computer (there's a download link for each book in your Kobo library on the webpage).
How?

When I log into my Kobo account and check My Books I do not see any download link and all of the research I have done on this tells me that Kobo only allows a browser reader for desktop books, at least for my Mac and that Kobo will not allow a download.

Here is a screenshot of one of the books in my library and the associated link (there is only one).
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Old 01-06-2026, 11:39 AM   #4
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Click on the three dots.
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Old 01-06-2026, 11:54 AM   #5
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The download link opened up a dialog box telling me that the book is in ePUB format and that I could download it. But when I did that I only got a small 1KB file with the name URLLink.acsm, and it is not the book.

It appears to be an xml info file, but it does not seem to have any link to the actual file. Am I missing something here?
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The download link opened up a dialog box telling me that the book is in ePUB format and that I could download it. But when I did that I only got a small 1KB file with the name URLLink.acsm, and it is not the book.

It appears to be an xml info file, but it does not seem to have any link to the actual file. Am I missing something here?
The book has DRM. Install the ACSM plugin in calibre and configure it with your Adobe account (if you don't have an Adobe account, create one). Then add the ACSM file to your library. It should come as EPUB without DRM.
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The book has DRM. Install the ACSM plugin in calibre and configure it with your Adobe account (if you don't have an Adobe account, create one). Then add the ACSM file to your library. It should come as EPUB without DRM.
But only as long as at least DeDRM 10.0.9 is installed and correctly configured.
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But only as long as at least DeDRM 10.0.9 is installed and correctly configured.
It can be an older version of deDRM. Adobe DRM has not changed in a decade or more.
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It can be an older version of deDRM. Adobe DRM has not changed in a decade or more.
We don't know if an older DeDRM would work with calibre 9. And that reminds me, I need to test DeDRM with the calibre beta.
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The book has DRM. Install the ACSM plugin in calibre and configure it with your Adobe account (if you don't have an Adobe account, create one). Then add the ACSM file to your library. It should come as EPUB without DRM.
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