I'm new to Kobo, and working flat out to try to find the downloaded Kobo books on my device but finally failed. Where are they stored on my PC/Mac/Android/Kobo eReader?
If you also have such difficulty in finding your Kobo books, you will get the most complete answer here in this post. But first, please make sure you have downloaded Kobo books to your Kobo devices.
Bonus Tips: Find Kobo Books on PC/Mac/Kobo eReader Automatically
If you don't want to find your Kobo books maually, there exists another much easier way to find them on your computer. Epubor Ultimate is the tool that can help you find Kobo books automatically. Your Kobo books opened in Kobo for PC/Mac desktop app, Adobe Digital Editions, and Kobo device can be detected by Epubor Ultimate. You can just right-click a book and then choose "Open", soon the folder which stores your Kobo books automatically pops up. No need to locate the folder by yourself!
Where are Kobo Books Stored on PC?
Situation 1. Kobo Books Downloaded via Kobo for PC
If you download your Kobo books to your Windows computer via the Kobo for PC Desktop, you will find the downloaded Kobo books here:
As the below picture shows, the Kobo books are not in real ebook format but they are only a string of characters. Actually, they are kepub files encrypted with Kobo DRM.
Situation 2. Kobo Books Downloaded from Kobo Website
If you download the Kobo books from the Kobo official website, you're probably getting .acsm files which are download links and must be first opened with Adobe Digital Editions to download to real ebook files. And then the Kobo books opened with Adobe Digital Editions will be stored here on Windows:
Where are Kobo Books Stored on Mac?
Situation 1. Kobo Books Downloaded via Kobo for Mac
Usually, the downloaded Kobo books are stored here on Mac if you download them from the Kobo for Mac Desktop:
The Kobo books downloaded via Kobo for Mac are also a string of unordered letters, the same as the books downloaded via Kobo for PC.
Situation 2. Kobo Books Downloaded from Kobo Website
If the Kobo books (.acsm files) are downloaded from the Kobo official website and opened by Adobe Digital Editions, they will be stored here on Mac:
Where are Kobo Books Stored on Android?
If you often read ebooks with your Kobo app for Android, you can find your downloaded ebooks by this way:
Step 1. Open the built-in file manager on your Android device.
Step 2. Either for the downloaded Kobo books or the books you upload to the Kobo app, the default storing path is:
Each Kobo book stored on Android is unpacked and included in a folder that contains the database of the book, but no real ebook file.
Or when you connect your Android device to your computer, you will find the Kobo books here on computer.
Where are Kobo Books Stored on Kobo eReader?
If you have a Kobo device and when you connect it to your computer, you can find the downloaded Kobo books here:
The kobo books stored in Kobo eReader are also a string of characters, which are actually kepub files encrypted with Kobo DRM.
Bonus Tips: How to Remove Kobo DRM and Back Up Kobo Books Effectively?
Why do you want to find where your Kobo books are stored? If my guess is right, you are going to back up your Kobo books, or going to read Kobo books more freely on a non-kobo device like Kindle, ReMarkable, Nook or any other popular ebook reading devices or apps. After finally finding the storage location of Kobo books, you will discover that almost all the Kobo books are DRM-protected and not in real ebook file format. As I mentioned above, the Kobo books downloaded via Kobo for PC/Mac and Kobo eReader are DRM-protected Kepub files. If you copy these files to another place for backup, you cannot do anything with such books since they are only supported by limited kobo devices.
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. Whether your Kobo books are downloaded from Kobo for PC/Mac, Kobo official website, or from Kobo eReader, Epubor Ultimate can help you decrypt such Kobo books and convert Kobo to PDF/Epub/Mobi/AZW3/TXT.
All the downloaded Kobo books will be automatically detected by Epubor Ultimate. You can just drag and drop them from the left to the right window to remove Kobo DRM. You can also click the Convert button to convert your Kobo books to PDF/Epub/Mobi/AZW3/TXT format.
1Kobo books downloaded via Kobo for PC/Mac will be automatically detected under the "Kobo" tab.
2Kobo books opened with Adobe Digital Editions will be shown under the "Adobe" tab.
3Kobo books downloaded to Kobo eReader will be automatically uploaded under the "Kobo dev" tab.
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I have Windows 10 on my computer and I am using the Kobo eReader software. The following location is where Kobo is storing eBooks that I purchased from Rakuten.
C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\Packages\KoboInc.KoboBooks_vk8qsnw174y90\LocalState\DownloadedBooks
Hi,
Could you please update the location for mac when downloaded from the desktop App, with the new macOs Sonoma? I can't reproduce your path...
Thanks
Hello, thanks for your commment
Do you mean that you still can't find the downloaded books on your Mac?
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