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Originally Posted by buffaloseven
Well, if they don't appear in side-loaded .kepubs but do appear in Kobo-supplied ePubs, there's probably only 3 options:
1. There's a database flag to enable the showing of statistics.
2. There's code within the book itself that enables the showing of statistics.
3. The device has a "list" of books that is supplied by Kobo that tells it which books to display stats with.
Option 3 seems unlikely, and Option 1 & 2 could probably be worked around. It's just a matter of digging to see what's going on. Makes me wish I had more time to actually do some of the digging.
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Option 2 is also unlikely, since it would require them to modify and re-distribute all of their books. My current thought is that it's related to the book location; for side-loaded KePubs, the book location
must start with "file://" (based on admittedly limited testing, things really don't work well at all when I try to change that) and so that makes an ideal and immutable way to detect side-loaded versus official KePub files.
Option 3 is just not feasible.