Backing up Kobo Ebooks
Friday, September 29th, 2017 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I didn't find this answer on a quick search of Mobilereads.com forum, so I thought I'd share. I read on my iPad in the Kobo app. I buy my ebooks from Kobo because they have a deal with the American Booksellers Association; when I buy a book there Room of One's Own gets a 15% cut. Sadly, Kobo has changed to storing all my books in a database, so I can't just drag to make a backup copy. In addition, many Kobo books have DRM, which limits the apps I can read the books in. I know I'll be reading books after Kobo has been sold and absorbed three more times, so I like to have open copies.
Toolkit
- Install Calibre (free and do donate if you can) https://calibre-ebook.com/download
- Install the deDRM toolkit from Apprentice Alf https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
Method
- On your computer, open a browser to your Kobo.com account https://www.kobo.com/us/en/library
- Locate the book you've purchased. Click on the three dots icon at the right edge, and choose "Download."
- On your computer, open your "Downloads" folder, sort by newest file, and double click the "URL.ascm" file that just arrived.
- Adobe Digital Editions will launch and prompt you for your Adobe ID.
- Once the book appears in its library, quit Adobe Digital Editions
- Launch Calibre
- Tap the letter A to "Add books from a single directory"
- On macOS, navigate to ~/Documents/Digital Editions
- Select the book in the file dialog.
- Wait briefly: a green check appears next to the books title.
- Select it and tap the letter S to "save to disk" and store it in your backups folder.
Now you've got a vanilla ePub file that every reader app in the world (except Kindle) can handle.
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