Kobo Calibre Web Setup

I just got around to setting up my Kobo Clara Color with calibre web. It was an interesting process, being able to sync all my books from my shelf on calibre web to my kobo. 

And not very difficult at it, really.

The following steps will allow you to setup your kobo with calibre web. 

What I did was :

1. Download and install the calibre main program.

2. Setup a database within calibre (with all the books i have, of course).

3. Download and install calibre web. 

4. setup calibre web so that it has a shelf, and did some configuration hokey-pokey to get it to work. 

    a. changed the username password to suit my needs. The URL for the calibre web setup would look along the lines of http://192.168.xx.xx:XXXX/

    b. Setup calibre web under "basic configuration" settings in the admin panel to sync kobo with my         computer, and "proxy unknown requests to the kobo store"

    c. set a port for the connection, in my case i'm using port 8083.

    d. generate a token/key for my kobo, and copy the URL it generates to clipboard.

    e. Within the shelf you setup (I called mine Kobo Sync) enable the "sync this shelf with kobo device."

5. made some modifications to the .conf file, on my kobo.... (location is

  "KOBOeReader/.kobo/Kobo/Kobo\ eReader.conf" 

     Edit the conf file, and where it says "api_endpoint=" in the conf file, simply place the url generated         after the "=" and save and exit. The file must be on your kobo. 

6. make sure you move books into your kobo shelf, and press the sync-now button in the top right of your kobo, to sync with your pc. 

Having done all this, the kobo should now, without a hitch (unless you did something wrong of course) should synchronize with the shelf you have on the computer, and download the books to your kobo.

This "should" work by default, the way to download books, but you might need a book converter for calibre web, which you can configure within calibreweb to convert epubs and mobis to kepub (kobo's propitiatory format.)



And there you have it, calibre all setup and ready to go with your kobo device.

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