Protecting Your Digital Reads: The Ultimate Tutorial on Backing Up eBooks From Kobo

How to Back up Kobo Books

Posted by Ada Wang on 1/8/2019 8:57:20 AM.

Except Amazon, Kobo is also one of the popular eBook retailers on the market. As an eBook lover, I guess you may have downloaded or purchased a large number of Kobo books and enjoyed them for a long time. But have you ever thought about the safety of your Kobo books? Do you worry about that someday your Kobo books will disappear without any notice? In fact, our downloaded Kobo books are not 100% safe, so it’s necessary for us to back up Kobo books safely on our computer, so does books from other eBook vendors.Learn more about back up books .

Why we need to back up Kobo books

As I have mentioned above, considering the safety of our Kobo books, back up our Kobo books is essential. You may have heard about the true story that Amazon delete one of its user’s Kindle books without saying any word. In fact, Kobo, like other eBook stores keep your books in “Cloud”, which means your books are saved on its server. We cannot guarantee Kobo won’t delete our Kobo books someday like Amazon.

Besides, we cannot make sure Kobo eBook store will be in good running condition all the time either. We need to take measures to protect our books. If we back up Kobo books to computer, we need not to worry that we will lose them even Kobo store will shut down in the future.

How to back up Kobo books

Have learned the reasons that we need to back up Kobo books, I guess you have no doubt to make backup of Kobo books? But how to? In fact, most of our downloaded Kobo books are DRM protected, removing DRM from Kobo books and then saved the copy of DRM free Kobo books on your computer drive is the best way. You may ask me cannot I just copy the DRMed files to another folder? Actually, if Kobo has delete your books, they may cannot be opened at all, because Kobo may tell the server that you are not the owner of these books. So the only step to back up your Kobo books is removing DRM.

In order to remove DRM from Kobo books, we need a powerful DRM removal tool to help us. But there are so many DRM removals on the market, which program is better? Here I prefer a professional tool Ultimate eBook Converter–Epubor Ultimate and want to share it with you. As far as I’m concerned, it’s my favorite DRM removal software, which supports batch DRM decryption and eBook conversion. It can help us remove DRM from Kobo desktop or Kobo eReader directly. Besides, its process speed is very fast. Compared with other similar program, it’s easier to use. You can download it for free trial.

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For books from Kobo desktop

Step1: Sync your Kobo books via Kobo desktop

Download Kobo desktop , install Kobo desktop on your computer. Then register it with your Kobo account. Sync and download your Kobo books via it. If you have already done these, just skip this step.

Step2: Remove DRM from Kobo books

After you have synced Kobo books successfully, now we can start to remove DRM from Kobo books. Just launch this DRM removal tool, it will detect and upload your Kobo books automatically. All of our downloaded Kobo books will show up on the left side bar under “Kobo” icon. Simply drag books from the left column to the main area, then all your Kobo books will be decrypted soon. You can refer to the guide remove DRM from Kobo to learn more details about unlocking Kobo books.

For books from Kobo eReader

If you have a Kobo eReader, you need not to sync your Kobo books via Kobo desktop. This software can help us remove DRM directly from Kobo reader.

You can just connect your Kobo eReader to your computer, and the tool will also detect your device automatically. Simply drag Kobo books to the main interface of this program to remove DRM.

After your Kobo books have been decrypted successfully, they will be saved as EPUB format. You can click File–>open decrypted folder or just right-click your added books, select “Explore decrypted folder” to see your decrypted Kobo books.

Another easier method to make DRM-free copies of Kobo books to computer

Here I recommend you another useful tool Kindle Transfer . This tool is designed to transfer books among Kobo, Kindle and computer, no matter they are DRM free or DRMed. It supports Kobo, Kindle e-Ink reader, Kindle for PC/Mac and Kobo desktop for PC/Mac. With this tool, we can easily transfer our Kobo books from Kobo reader to computer. You can download it for free trial.

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It’s easy to use. Simply connect your Kobo to computer, then the tool will automatically detect your Kobo device. Select the target folder on your computer, click “Transfer” to start to copy Kobo books to computer. Soon job done. So convenient, right?

Now we have made DRM-free copies of Kobo books and save them to the path we like permanently. If you are interested in backing up Google Play books, please read this guide How to Back up Google Play Books .

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