Glo How to view the free ebooks that come with the reader

[Ripplinger]

There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to force those books to be seen by the reader. I can see the files in .kobo\kepub\ directory, they have long numbers and no extensions for the filenames. I added 2 free books from Kobo and those were placed in the same directory by Kobo and those are in my library, I can see those 2. But still not the originals that came with the reader, I was hoping adding the books would trigger the others to be picked up.

I even did a factory reset thinking when I transferred books over with Calibre that it wasn't able to "see" those books in the other directory so they were ignored, or something else I might have messed up in the hurry to start reading on it when I first got it. But it's the same thing, there doesn't seem to be a way to view those free books.

So what's the trick to actually load those free books?

[robko]

Which free books are you looking for? The Original and I think the Wifi versions had free classics loaded, but I don't think they have done that from the Touch on.

[Ripplinger]

One I know is Don Quixote, maybe Great Expectations (I can't remember if I tried transferring that one, but think it came with), there's a few books in other languages also, maybe German and French. I copied them off the reader to my hard drive so I could add .epub and open them to see what they were.

They're definitely on the reader, I can see them in the .kobo\kepub directory, and they're there again after I did a factory reset.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

There doesn't seem to be anything I can do to force those books to be seen by the reader. I can see the files in .kobo\kepub\ directory, they have long numbers and no extensions for the filenames. I added 2 free books from Kobo and those were placed in the same directory by Kobo and those are in my library, I can see those 2. But still not the originals that came with the reader, I was hoping adding the books would trigger the others to be picked up.

I even did a factory reset thinking when I transferred books over with Calibre that it wasn't able to "see" those books in the other directory so they were ignored, or something else I might have messed up in the hurry to start reading on it when I first got it. But it's the same thing, there doesn't seem to be a way to view those free books.

So what's the trick to actually load those free books?

Are you looking at the 5 books, one each in English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish?

See this post for more information.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ch#post2430806

You can copy them to your computer, rename to add .kepub.epub extension and then open with your preferred epub app to get the title/author, rename and sideload to your ereader.

Regards,
David

[Ripplinger]

Silly me... I assumed if Kobo put them on the reader, they'd be there to read when you first initialized it . That's pretty much what I did the first time, I just figured I must have screwed something up in the setup.

Thanks for the info.

[Ripplinger]

One odd thing that I noticed... after I did the factory reset, the reader still had my book shelves that I previously had while books were loaded. They seemed to be stored in the KoboReader.sqlite file.

Shouldn't the factory reset have cleared even the shelves from before and created a new KoboReader.sqlite file?

[davidfor]

The shelves are synced to the Kobo server. And then restored by the sync after the factory reset.

[Ripplinger]

That explains it, thanks. I didn't think the server would store that info since all the books were sideloaded.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

That explains it, thanks. I didn't think the server would store that info since all the books were sideloaded.

For sideloaded books, the shelves are recreated without contents.

Regards,
David