how to convert an ebook from Kobo Plus

Odyssee · 10-25-2022, 02:38 PM

Today I subscribed to Kobo Plus. I acquired a few titles which I synced on my Kobo Sage. I also would like to backup these books as epub files on my hard disk. Supposedly there should be an option in my Kobo account to download to harddisk but there isn't. So I connected my Kobo to my laptop and in Calibre I found these titles in the main memory of my device. I then used the option save to disk. Now I find these books on my harddisk but with weird file names without an extension. Something like this 0a1f8fbe-3f61-41ba-83dc-b4bf7ea9ac0a.
How can I convert these files to epub? I tried epubor but that didn't work.

DNSB · 10-25-2022, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Odyssee

Today I subscribed to Kobo Plus. I acquired a few titles which I synced on my Kobo Sage. I also would like to backup these books as epub files on my hard disk. Supposedly there should be an option in my Kobo account to download to harddisk but there isn't. So I connected my Kobo to my laptop and in Calibre I found these titles in the main memory of my device. I then used the option save to disk. Now I find these books on my harddisk but with weird file names without an extension. Something like this 0a1f8fbe-3f61-41ba-83dc-b4bf7ea9ac0a.
How can I convert these files to epub? I tried epubor but that didn't work.

Basically, the Kobo Plus books use a variant of Kobo's proprietary encryption scheme and are not intended to be downloadable other than on Kobo apps and devices. The rationale is that if you stop your Kobo Plus subscription, you no longer have access to those books (much like when a library loan expires or, for the Kindle fans, when you return a Kindle Unlimited loan or you no longer pay for the KU subscription) so the ebooks will be removed from your device on the next sync with Kobo. This is obviously not possible with a copy that has been downloaded and DRM removed.

Odyssee · 10-25-2022, 03:00 PM

Thank you DNSB. It makes sense and I can’t blame Kobo for it.

10-25-2022, 02:38 PM	#1
Odyssee Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 25572 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Kobo Sage, Kindle Basic 11	how to convert an ebook from Kobo Plus Today I subscribed to Kobo Plus. I acquired a few titles which I synced on my Kobo Sage. I also would like to backup these books as epub files on my hard disk. Supposedly there should be an option in my Kobo account to download to harddisk but there isn't. So I connected my Kobo to my laptop and in Calibre I found these titles in the main memory of my device. I then used the option save to disk. Now I find these books on my harddisk but with weird file names without an extension. Something like this 0a1f8fbe-3f61-41ba-83dc-b4bf7ea9ac0a. How can I convert these files to epub? I tried epubor but that didn't work.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Please don't downscale or convert my images, ebook-convert !	nylnook	Conversion	3	02-11-2016 06:08 AM
How to batch-convert with ebook-convert?	cypresstwist	Conversion	8	02-22-2011 09:28 AM
Command Line problems: ebook-convert, ebook-meta with tags: --series, --series-index	omnivorous	Calibre	4	11-07-2010 02:42 PM
set meta data with ebook-meta and ebook-convert	krischik	Calibre	6	01-19-2010 11:40 AM
ebook-convert for OS X	jbambridge	Calibre	2	08-06-2009 08:24 AM

10-25-2022, 03:00 PM	#3
Odyssee Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 25572 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Kobo Sage, Kindle Basic 11	Thank you DNSB. It makes sense and I can’t blame Kobo for it.

Advert