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This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.

Thanks, but I don't use e-readers as they are not available here.

I've been using MoonReader for many years now and settled on pretty good parameters that make the reading experience very comfortable on both my phone and my tablet.

Moon reader is amazing. I love mine so much I don't see a point of having a separate book reader.

I don't understand what this is doing. Can't you sideload any ebook onto a kobo anyway? Never had an issue on my Clara

I’ve noticed that people today often bristle at any suggestion that one connect a device to a phone or computer with a cable – on Reddit, one will often get downvoted for this. Apparently, a lot of younger people are hardly aware this is possible and it strikes them as overly complicated or for old people. People want to wirelessly transfer stuff, and what the OP linked to is a popular way to do that with Kobo.

I'm old enough to have used computers before having any Internet, and in 2026 the idea of plugging in devices to transfer files to it does feel like a fiddly relic of the past to me.

Yes. You can literally ssh into a kobo. I usually just put my books on a WebDAV share that is mounted on the kobo.

Sideload without cables is challenging.

I download epubs from zlib but then they're on my phone and transferring them to my Kobo is arduous. This makes it easy.

Calibre? https://calibre-ebook.com/

This is a genius way to farm ebooks while providing a useful service. I personally just use Google drive though.

Lol it never occurred to me that they might just save every single upload

I’d hope they do file or block deduping.

On my Kindle I use KOReader Zlibrary plugin which allows you to download books from within the reader. It's more convenient then any send-to-kindle workflow.

https://github.com/ZlibraryKO/zlibrary.koplugin

I don't recall ever needing anything special on my Aura H2O. It's one of the reasons I chose Kobo in the first place. Just copy any file onto it.

If you mean stripping drm I used Calibre for that but mostly I just avoid buying books with drm where possible.

Handy, but a book lover with an ereader probably already uses Calibre :)

Or... just a USB cable?

I agree that a USB cable is the most practical option. However, the aforementioned site is useful in a specific scenario: if your Kobo is very old, macOS won't recognize it.

If other operating systems interact with the Kobo well, the problem clearly lies with MacOS.

I the zlib app on my phone. No clean way from my phone to on my Kobo.

Again, a USB cable

Do you own a USB c to micro-USB to get the file off my phone?

The are $5 or less on amazon.

Or a book goes from zlib to my Kobo and I don't leave the toilet.

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