Kobo Ebook Reader File Format
Copy epub pdf files to kobo via usb directly.
Kobo ebook reader file format. The right way to back up kobo books is to remove kobo drm and convert the kobo kepub to real ebook files like epub pdf mobi books. If you don t want to use any tool to transfer books to your kobo. Kobo drm and even the kindle drm and convert ebooks to any format.
You may know about that kindle books are all in a special format. The format can be read by the kobo ereader blackberry devices apple s ibooks app running on macintosh computers and ios devices google play books app running on android and ios devices barnes noble nook amazon kindle fire sony reader bebook bookeen cybook gen3 with firmware v2 and up adobe digital editions lexcycle stanza fbreader pocketbook ereader aldiko the mozilla firefox add on. Drag the pdf or epub files into the kobo ereader drive.
I also wrote a detailed guide to add epub books on kobo ereader you can read it for. The epub format has gained some popularity as a vendor independent xml based e book format. As i mentioned above the kobo books downloaded via kobo for pc mac and kobo ereader are drm protected kepub files.
Kobo ereader kobo desktop app file support. Txt html and rtf. On your ereader tap connect when you see the computer detected window.
If you want to read kindle books on kobo you ll have to remove the drm from them and convert them to the format supported by kobo. Kobo original and kobo wi fi does not support epub3 pdf flepub and mobi. It allows bookmarks annotations and epub3 tables of contents.
The kobo ereader is an e reader produced by toronto based kobo inc. You can see that kobo readers support one major kobo format which is epub. Epub is a file format that comes with an extension epub when you save the file into the system.