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Kobo CAN import existing books...

varaonaid 14th Jan 2011

I've yet to commit to a paid books format (ie Kindle, Kobo, Google ebooks, Nook, etc) because I hate the idea of being locked into one format or the other. Having said that, one of the things that Kobo touted when it first came out was the ability to import your existing drm free books. I found no instructions to do this so I contacted the company and found that it IS possible to do so!

Here are the instructions as sent to me from Kobo:

Thank you for your recent inquiry. We hope this helps.

When you clicked on the Download Now button and chose Save, you downloaded a file called ?urllink.acsm.? This is the license allowing you to open the eBook in ADE. In order to open your book, you must find the file on your computer, then follow these instructions to open the file:

Right-click on the urllink.acsm file.
Select Open With, and choose ?Adobe Digital Editions?.
Click OK. ADE will open and download the eBook.

sincerely The Kobo Team

Hopefully some others will find this info helpful. Still haven't settled on a reader but at least you can read your existing books in Kobo. I have to say I was incredibly disappointed and shocked that Google ebooks (which I've waited for all year since it was supposed to be so "open") wouldn't allow me to import ANY of my existing books, even drm free epub! This is shocking and I don't see a lot of people adopting the reader if it means that they lose all their existing books. End of rant. happy

I just want an ebook reader that will open both epub and pdf. Yes, I know there are pdf readers available on Android market and I do have them on my phone...but I want ALL my books available to browse and read in one place...I don't want to have to switch back and forth between an ebook reader and pdf reader. Please, support this some ebook developer!!!