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Originally Posted by Anak
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.
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Sorry, I think you missed my point. I don't think the source version of the epub and kepub you use in the first post are the same. There are differences in the rendering: the kepub render tends to use a bigger font and the minimum margin is larger.
As I said, when I compare the epub and kepub versions of books, they are generally the same. I usually read the epub because I fix the formatting problems I see. And I don't want the title at the top or the pages per chapter. But, I have "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke, and if it wasn't for the missing title at the top of each screen, I wouldn't be able to tell the epub and kepub versions apart. It isn't the only one I have like this, but it is one where I read the kepub version because there were no problems.
I think there has been changes. Kobo have changed the kepub styling over time. There were more differences in the past. From something Kobo has said, I don't think they have applied this to all books, only new books and those people complain about. Or they are working on them with that being the priority.