Iphone Kobo App

[zjones]

How do you back up the books that have been downloaded into the Kobo App, onto a desktop computer?

[dmacmart]

You will need to install Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions
Run ADE and authorize your computer.

Then sign into your Kobo account on the kobobooks.com website, and click on LIBRARY (top right hand of the blue header bar). For each book, click on Adobe DRM ePub (most books have this blue button). This will allow you to open or download an .acsm file. This is not a book, just a link to a book. Open each acsm file, which will download the ePub, and save it in the ADE library.

When you are done, click on the library view in ADE (top left hand icon). hover over the title of a book. There is a right-arrow; click it and a dropdown will appear where you can see "Item Info". Hover over the Filepath and it will display the location of the file. On my computer it's C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Digital Editions.

In that folder, you should find all your ePubs, ready to archive. These books are DRM-protected and tied to your Adobe account.

(One of my books does not have an ePub. It is a public domain, free book)

[ltr]

Originally Posted by zjones

How do you back up the books that have been downloaded into the Kobo App, onto a desktop computer?

The books you've purchased should be in your library on the Kobo web the epub site.

There is a button there to download the epub file into your computer. It's actually a small .ascm file. When you manually download the file from the Kobo site after purchase or from your Kobo web library, it is saved in a directory of your choice as an acsm file.

Double clicking this .acsm file opens Adobe Digital Editions application (you'll require this application already loaded on your computer) and creates the DRM protected filename.epub file which is located automatically in:

C:\Users\username\My Documents\My Digital Editions\filename.epub

This book file can be dropped into the e-reader with ADE, Calibre, or Explorer.

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