[clug] Kobo eBook Reader - followup query

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 18:23:45 MDT 2010


Felix Karpfen <felix.karpfen at gmail.com> writes:

> In recent posts, the Kobo Reader scored many favourable comments from 
> CLUG members.
>
> I visited the Kobo web-pages and left unenlightened.  The info focussed  
> on the ability of the Kobo to copy its content to a computer that runs 
> Windows XP or Mac OS 10.5.
>
> But I want to go in the opposite direction.
>
> I currently have downloaded books in the following formats:
>
> mobi (non-DMR);
> fb2;
> epub;
> html; and 
> txt.
>
> Can these books be loaded into the Kobo reader?  And if not, what are my 
> options?

ePub is the only one of those formats that can be read on the Kobo
(since it only knows about ePub and PDF).

Your best bet is to use calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to do the
conversions from the other formats to ePub for you.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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