Now when I first started using the Kobo app on my Tablets, I noticed that some of the books I previously purchased from the Reader Library for my eReader device suddenly started to download to my Kobo library (not a 100% sure how this occurred). I never really gave it much thought until tonight when I picked up the eReader which I hadn't touched in awhile and noticed that there were still some books on it that I hadn't finished and never transferred over to Kobo. And so it started me thinking about how I could get those books into my Kobo library, why hadn't they transferred like my other books did, and how would I transfer the new book I just downloaded should I ever want to give it a read in the future...Basically what I'm looking for here is a way to seamlessly transfer my eBooks across all my digital mobile devices. Initially, this sounds allot easier than it is because I'm using two different retailers to get my content.
Having downloaded both the Sony Reader desktop app and the Kobo desktop app to manage my libraries, what I discovered was that the Kobo app recognized my eReader and synchronized my entire Kobo library into the Sony eReader. This is a cool thing although it's not likely my wife will read any of the material that was transferred as we don't always share the same taste in books (my stuff tends to be very technical with lots of geek biographies). On the other hand this didn't solve my initial problem because the books in the eReader didn't end up in my Kobo world after the sync (one way only). Thus, I should have purchased the book from Kobo in the first place. Seeing as that I can't time travel backwards to do that, I still needed to solve this problem.
The next thing I did was check out the Android Market Place to see if there was a Sony Reader app that I could download that would already contain my previously purchased books. Fortunately, this free app exists but unfortunately, it won't work on my Acer tablet because Sony has decided it should only work on they're tablet. (it would however work on my wife's Android phone) Another dead end :(
I began to research a manual means of transferring the eBooks by using a software app called 'Calibre'. Calibre is a free software application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. After you download an ePub, PDF, LIT or other format eBook to your computer, Calibre allows you to 'add' it to your computer's Calibre library. The software allows you to convert from one format to another, add cover art, and modify the layout of the eBooks to some extent. You can then transfer this library to your Kobo, either all at once or one book at a time as you add them.This solution started to look good until I tried to import a couple of ePub files to Kobo and I was hit with a DRM warning. DRM stands for 'Digital Rights Management' and it governs access control technologies that limit the usage of digital content and devices. In short, this is why some of the eBooks I had on my Sony eReader didn't seamlessly transfer over to my Kobo library.
Unwilling to be deterred by this I soon discovered that if I used Adobe's 'Digital Editions' software I could authorize specific computers or devices to access my DRM protected books. For some reason, I already had an Adobe account, so what I was able to do is grab the digital eBook/ePub file I wanted from my Reader Library, transfer them to my cloud storage (Drop Box), and then access them from my tablet using a reader app called 'LimiRead'. Once I launched the eBook, I then had to login to my Adobe account to authorize it and Presto, said eBook is now part of my digital library.
Problem solved!
RPM
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