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Originally Posted by Anak
Kobo should only use "industry standard" rendering engines that displays all epubs regardless the vendor (Kobo, B&N or any other shop) who sold the epub.
For epub 2 that is (like it or not) Abobes RMSDK and used by almost all dedicated devices (Sony, Bookeen etc.)
For epub 3: I don't know. Readium?
If Kobo wants to use a proprietary format it should be better than the "standard" and solve (some of) its limitations. |
If you want epubs, that's your choice. Select the download Adobe epub or Adobe DRM epub option if you're buying from Kobo. If you're buying from B&N, good luck since you may have fun getting their DRM to work with a Kobo. If you want to download Adobe ADEPT DRM files from your local library? You will read those with the ARM renderer on a Kobo.
If you want a ebook that is capable of any text direction other than left to right, top to bottom Western European text, you have to look at other choices than the Adobe RMSDK. Readium may have a product in the future, for now what they have is an add-on for the Chrome browser, an add-on that has in my limited experience playing with it, has quite a few issues with rendering -- among other items, the two Japanese language epub3 files I tried didn't work. Looking at SDK page, they are moving along but still have quite a ways to go. Perhaps, Kobo should have stayed out of the Japanese market for the next couple of years?
It would also appear that ACCESS, who supply the NetFront renderer used by Kobo for kepub files, is now a member of the Readium group. The various blurbs for NetFront BookReader are filled with comments about supporting EPUB3 so that makes sense.
Regards,
David