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Old 10-14-2010, 05:37 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by taming View Post
I believe one of the problems is with scaling of images--we see a related thing making reflow of PDF files such a challenge. I do not agree that the reason to buy books from Kobo is the proprietary version of DRM on the machine--not at all. However, if people want to sync devices including the reader, than an improvement in the Kobo format would be a huge deal. It's just silly to say "you might as well warez the things."
Why else buy from Kobo if not for the files made to (supposedly) look and work best on the machine? You can get ePubs from anywhere. The warez comment came from the fact that to get legit, purchased ePubs looking good on the machine you have to go through a process similar to what you would have to do to get pirated ones looking good... and the pirated ones don't cost ten bucks.

EDIT: it's not really an endorsement of piracy, if I bought this thing to steal books I wouldn't be on a forum talking about how I wish the legit versions were better so I could start throwing money at Kobo.
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