Kobo SD Card

Elaxon · 02-21-2018, 05:00 AM

I have a Kobo H20 Aura with a 32 GB SD card. For me sideloading books has worked fine with transferring books to the SD-Card. But it becomes a issue when I download books from kobostore it goes into internal storage?

As these books have DRM is it just possible to move them to external manually or how do I make it download new books I purchase straight to SD-Card or is that not possible?

davidfor · 02-21-2018, 07:22 AM

For downloaded books, the device will manage the storage. When it considers the internal memory to be full, it will download the books to the SD card. From memory, this is done when there is less than about 100MB left on the internal memory. I this a long time ago, so the exact amount might have changed.

Elaxon · 02-21-2018, 11:48 AM

Oh okay I see. Where would these DRM protected books be stored? I looked in the internal and external and did not find them which makes me think they can not be moved to external?

davidfor · 02-21-2018, 06:00 PM

On the internal storage, the downloaded books are in the directory ".kobo/kepub". On the SD card, they are in "koboExtStorage/kepub". And this isn't just DRM protected books. It is all books purchased from Kobo and downloaded directly to the device. Whether they have DRM is dependent on the author or publisher.

DNSB · 02-21-2018, 07:19 PM

And further to what davidfor posted, the file names are not human readable. In the kepub directory, you find files with names such as "6ec1cc70-10d1-452a-8699-74fe1d8ae25d" with no extension.

02-21-2018, 05:00 AM	#1
Elaxon Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 224118 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: Kobo H20 Aura	Kobo SD Card I have a Kobo H20 Aura with a 32 GB SD card. For me sideloading books has worked fine with transferring books to the SD-Card. But it becomes a issue when I download books from kobostore it goes into internal storage? As these books have DRM is it just possible to move them to external manually or how do I make it download new books I purchase straight to SD-Card or is that not possible?

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02-21-2018, 07:22 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	For downloaded books, the device will manage the storage. When it considers the internal memory to be full, it will download the books to the SD card. From memory, this is done when there is less than about 100MB left on the internal memory. I this a long time ago, so the exact amount might have changed.

02-21-2018, 11:48 AM	#3
Elaxon Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 224118 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: Kobo H20 Aura	Oh okay I see. Where would these DRM protected books be stored? I looked in the internal and external and did not find them which makes me think they can not be moved to external?

02-21-2018, 06:00 PM	#4
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	On the internal storage, the downloaded books are in the directory ".kobo/kepub". On the SD card, they are in "koboExtStorage/kepub". And this isn't just DRM protected books. It is all books purchased from Kobo and downloaded directly to the device. Whether they have DRM is dependent on the author or publisher.

02-21-2018, 07:19 PM	#5
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 35,401 Karma: 145435140 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	And further to what davidfor posted, the file names are not human readable. In the kepub directory, you find files with names such as "6ec1cc70-10d1-452a-8699-74fe1d8ae25d" with no extension.