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Old 01-13-2022, 07:54 PM   #16
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Care to guess which one gives a better result? That would be archiving in ePub. There is a thread someplace on MR about what format to use for archiving and ePub is it.
Considering all Kobo does is to take the uploaded epub and run it through their own routines that are similar to what the KoboTouchExtended driver does, the difference is pretty meaningless. Yes, epub is probably the best format for archiving purposes. But, a kepub meets all the standards for epub, so it is also an epub.

The real differences in epubs and kepubs is the renderer. Which for archive purposes, is unimportant. And the fact that no two epub renderers agree on how to do it, means it is even more unimportant.
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YES, you can can do a bulk download. You do not HAVE TO do them one at a time. You may then decide whether to convert them to epub, another operation that can be done as a batch. Or, you may even decide to leave them as kepubs. The choice, nattering nabob of negativity notwithstanding, is yours.
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Obok just removed the DRM. The eBooks were still KePub.
Okay, thanks. Now that I think about it, I believe I asked this question before. Sorry for forgetting the answer.
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Yes and no. OBOK imports them into calibre with a file extension of .epub, but internally all the kepub-specific <span>s, <div>s, <script>s etc are still present. These days I use my own calibre Editor routine for removing these but I think the 'Modify Epub' plugin still has options which can strip (most of?) them.

Strictly speaking it would be more "correct" for the OBOK-imported file to have a .kepub extension, but that would probably lead to some user inconveniences.
Thanks... Should have included this post with the other two. Now I remember getting this wrong before.
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The best way to archive your Kobo eBooks is to download them as ePub. That requires doing this one at a time. There's no way to bulk download them.
A rather laughable statement in light of my experience today. I downloaded 6 epubs from Kobo. After metadata/cover update, I opened them in Sigil to see if I wanted to do any modifications before reading them.

5 out of the 6 downloaded using the My Books action menu had chapters that started like this:

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<head>
  <title>Chapter 6</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/media.css"/>

<!-- kobo-style -->
<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/javascript" src="../js/kobo.js"/>
<style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="text/css" id="koboSpanStyle">.koboSpan { -webkit-text-combine: inherit; }</style>

</head>
<body>
   <section id="chapter-6" class="element element-bodymatter element-container-single element-type-chapter element-with-heading element-with-heading-image" role="doc-chapter" epub:type="chapter">
    <div class="heading heading-with-title heading-with-image">
      <div class="heading-contents">
        <div class="title-subtitle-block title-block-title-is-element-number">
          <div class="element-number-block">
          </div>
          <div class="title-block">
            <h1 class="title case-upper"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.1.1">6</span></h1>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="heading-image-block heading-image-aspect-wide heading-image-block-after-title-and-subtitle">
          <div class="heading-image-size-container heading-image-width-500">
            <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.2.1"><img src="images/chapter_heading.png" alt="" class="heading-image-image"/></span>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="text" id="chapter-6-text">
      <p class="first first-in-chapter first-full-width"><span class="first-phrase"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="koboSpan" id="kobo.3.1">


Basically, it would appear that either Kobo is serving up their preprocessed kepubs or the authors/publishers/formatters are supplying their epubs in kepub format.
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