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Originally Posted by The Terminator
Do you mean the books were in MOBI?
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The books are available from O'Reilly in a variety of formats, including ePub, Mobi, PDF, and a couple others, all DRM-free. The .EPUB files from O'Reilly are overly complex, and the Kobo chokes trying to process them.
However, if you take the .MOBI files (which are also available when you purchase a book) and convert them into .EPUB via Calibre, the resulting converted .EPUB file is much simpler than the .EPUB you can download from O'Reilly and the Kobo is able to process it much more quickly.
There are a few minor variations in formatting that I've noticed between the original .EPUB and the .EPUB that is generated from the .MOBI, but nothing so far that makes the converted book significantly worse.
It's a bit annoying having to download and convert the books when the .EPUB provided should work, but it's better than not being able to read them at all, or waiting 10 minutes to load the original .EPUB.