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This post is especially for people using Kobo ereaders.
This afternoon I gave in to temptation and bought a Kobo Touch so as to be able to test how my ebooks look without having to depend on my friend to check them for me.
I have in front of me Can You forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope which I put on the MR Library recently, both opened at Chapter 1 on my Sony PRS T1 and the Kobo Touch.
On the Sony the text appears as expected - the chapter title, a horizontal rule, and the text starting immediately below.
On the Kobo touch I see the chapter title and the horizontal rule, but the rest of the screen is blank - the text doesn't start until the next page.
I've looked at other ebooks I've done on the MR library, and none of them has shown this behaviour. Chapter 2 of Can You Forgive Her? starts as expected on the Kobo Touch.
Also, text which I have italicised shows in italics on the Sony, but shows in block (emphasised but in normal font style) on the Kobo Touch.
I haven't the slightest idea where to start looking for the cause of these differences between the way the same ebook displays on two different readers. Does anyone have any suggestions? Let me repeat, if that should be necessary, that the html and CSS in the ebook validate to W3C standards, and the ebook validates with ePubCheck and FlightCrew.
Could some who uses a Kobo Touch please download Can You Forgive Her? from the MR library to see if he or she sees the same thing?
The links seem to work without problem on the Kobo Touch in this and other ebooks of mine, though footnotes take some time to work.
I think I'll take a Kobo ebook apart and see if I can find clues as to the way Kobo does things.
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