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Originally Posted by davidfor
Apparently, my experience with the epub and kepub versions of books is different from yours. When I open a kepub and it has crappy formatting, the epub is usually as bad. The current book I am reading, used about four different font and sizes for the paragraphs, cycling through them. The started reading the kepub and swapped to the epub and found it was just as bad.
I have found this for most of the books I have bought from Kobo. But, there have been a few where one format was noticeably better. In most cases, possibly all but I don't remember, it was the epub that was better. I can think of two reasons for this. For older books, the kepub converter might have had problems and messed up the formatting. And Kobo have reconverted these.
But, I think the main reason is that the epub was supplied to Kobo had bad formatting. Kobo converted this to kepub and carried the bad formatting with it. Maybe with some extra errors due to GIGO. I think the next step in this is that the epub was fixed. Then it was supplied to Kobo again, but it wasn't sent through the kepub converter. I know that some books have been updated due to complaints made. Some have also been withdrawn because they were so bad, though I think those were missing text rather than just bad formatting.
The thing to do is to complain to Kobo about the book. They do fix them, but it can take time. If the epub version is good, that should make it faster.
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I agree with you that if a source epub provided by a publisher is poorly formatted, the kepub version is just as bad. And I don't expect Kobo to fix this for every single wrongly formatted epub. The publisher should supply a well formatted epub.
But the added Kobo Code is a sort of "catch all solution" to make sure that Kobo features can be changed through the user interface. But as my example shows it also alters the lay out in an unwanted way. Maybe this can be solved by rewriting the Kobo code but this might be easier said than done but not impossible.