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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I guess the screen shots in that article were all of the kepub type of epub.
If so, I don't see any real problem with the format displayed by them.
I wish the same thing could be posted (somewhere) showing how sideloaded
epubs look and perhaps we could have a contest to establish the best tweak
parameters, with screen photos to show the results.
Having almost 10,000 ebook files to sideload, I am really interested in a good
way to produce readable ebooks on my newest toy (when it gets here). That
they look fine in Kobo's proprietary format, is both encouraging and very
annoying. If they are deliberately making it so that standard epubs display
poorly, to make their format preferred by Aura HD users, I will be very upset.
Luck;
Ken
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Standard ebups display very nicely IMO. Better than on my other readers IMO, but this due I think mostly to the superior screen.
And you can send your books in kepub format as well if you want to using calibre.
You don't get the 'features' such as reading stats from within your book for an epub and some fonts may look better, although I don't think significantly better. and you can always get the stats etc. from the home page.
Kepubs also give you a chapter bar instead of page x of xxx and a title at the top but I prefer the epub format so far. It doesn't seem to me that Kobo has taken any thing away from epubs, they have just added some extras to kepubs, which personally I don't even want and certainly don't need
My biggest problem is with the time taken to load shelves. Much slower than Sony or Kindle with far fewer books and/or shelves so I would advise you to load your books a few 100 at a time and don't have any shelves with more than 20 books on them. If you do put on 10,000 books and have shelves for them I would be interested to know how long your shelves take to show up.
Overall though it is very nice, even if I don't really care for the case, the reading experience is great.
Helen
Helen