If you want to convert purchased ebooks from Kobo you’ll have to login to your account and download the copies first, which requires using Adobe Digital Editions, and then import them into Calibre to convert them. If you are converting regular DRM-free ePubs all you have to do is import them and follow the directions below. You can use Calibre’s conversion feature to change the CSS settings in an ebook. Here’s the procedure below, and here’s the link to some pictures showing the settings in Calibre if you need a visual. Kobo Formatting Tip: Minimizing Wasted SpaceĪwhile back a reader named Evenft left a comment about what settings to use with Calibre to minimize wasted space. You can even get rid of the entire big bar of wasted space at the top of the screen (unless you are running firmware version 2.5.2). With the proper settings you can easily minimize wasted space and remove spaces between paragraphs. Luckily, there’s a great free ebook tool called Calibre that you can use to re-format your ebooks to have more control over formatting. In fact I can’t think of an ebook reader or app that annoys me more than Kobo’s software. The irony is that Kobo’s ereaders offer more layout and font adjusting options than any other brand, but when it comes right down to it there are too many limitations and variables to make good use of the settings. And don’t get me started on how much I hate the long paragraph bug that makes it so there’s even more wasted space at the bottom of the page for certain books and fonts.

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