05-03-2017, 10:55 AM | #16 |
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05-03-2017, 11:14 AM | #17 |
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A, nope! I don't want to de-DRM the ebooks. I thought the method in the quote back avoided having to take that action.
Otherwise, I'll just continue to struggle with ADE moving the ebooks to KA1. |
05-03-2017, 11:36 AM | #18 |
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Calibre should be able to move the DRM'd books just fine unless you're converting them to kePub or something.
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05-03-2017, 04:26 PM | #19 | |
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I went to My Digital Editions and copied and pasted each book into the Calibre folder. Calibre gave me an error message about the DRM status when I tried to process them. And, no, I don't used kePub, only epub on my KA1. |
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05-03-2017, 04:48 PM | #20 | |
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05-03-2017, 08:05 PM | #21 |
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j, Adobe Digital Editions does successfully (ultimately) move books from the ADE library to my KA1. Oftentimes, the process fails and I have to do things like reload, reboot, etc., but ultimately it can be made to work successfully.
This would surely be evidence that ADE is properly set up for my KA1. . . . . Pete |
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If you are using Calibre, you can try adding the books to Calibre using Calibre's Add books and then connecting your Kobo and transferring the books using Calibre's send to device. Calibre seems to add the DRMed epubs happily though most of the information is not available and the Calibre viewer will not be able to open the book to read. I've never tried this so not sure how well the DRM authorization information will transfer through to your Kobo. This assumes that you do not have the DeDRM plugin installed and enabled. Copying and pasting books into your computer's Calibre library is definitely Not A Good Idea. Last edited by DNSB; 05-04-2017 at 12:13 AM. |
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05-04-2017, 09:11 AM | #23 | |
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I've been doing what you say in your first paragraph above, but ADE has difficulty oftentimes so that I have to restart ADE and/or reboot before it can transfer the books to the KA1. What you say in your second paragraph seems to work so I'll try doing this regularly in the future so as to avoid the transfer difficulties with ADE. What you say in your third paragraph is what I understood someone upthread said will work, but it doesn't. |
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05-04-2017, 01:14 PM | #25 |
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I suspect that they wrote unclearly. Calibre is not happy when you manually copy books into the Calibre library directories -- I seem to remember Kovid Goyal as stating they may be deleted without warning -- as they will not have a record in the database. Dragging and dropping books on Calibre or using the Add books button works as does adding a different format for an existing book by using the add a format in the Edit metadata dialog.
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05-05-2017, 09:35 AM | #27 |
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David, Actually it intuitively occurred to me that it should be possible to eliminate one of the steps in the process you describe. Simply point Calibre to the device then Add Book from the ADE folder straight to the device. This appears to work fine.
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