I began this topic in order to find out a way of being able to enable Reading Statistics, officially only available for Kepub files. I still find my self very far from satisfying results. After using Calibre and its Extended Kobo plugin with all others plugins disabled as instructions provided. It didnt turn out as well as I hoped it would.
The unsatisfying result: even though the readings statistics feature becomes available on the converted kepub files, the feature comes at a price I'm not sure is worth paying: Previously the epub presented the low bar showing a number of book pages you read out of total book pages. On the kepub however there is only a number of pages read within the total of current chapter pages. You can't know which actual book page you're navigating and you cannot skip to a specific page, now you have to navigate within the chapter pages so at the beginning of the next chapter you are on PAGE 1 again. Confusing?
Let me illustrate the matter to make things clearer:
ISSUE 1: number of book pages read/ total of book pages gets exchanged by the total number of pages of the chapter itself. ( you'll never have a clue if you are in the middle or at the end of your book on the kepub unless your book in rendered as a whole long solo chapter, which is not the case for the 9 out of 10 books that I tested)
BOOK 1 EPUB low bar example:
BOOK 1 KEPUB low bar example:
And this is how Navigation from page to page looks like:
Navigating on
epub I'm able to select any specific page from the whole book:
Navigating on
kepub I can only select a certain page within the chapter, so in this case, if I was on page 9 on the epub now I am on page 23 out of a total of 27 pages this chapter has. How can i go to the actual page X of a book? I can't. What if the kepub generated different chapters each 5 pages on a book of 600 pages, how can you navigate through it? Impossible! How messed up is that? Example:
The following four images present the same observations placed in the same order featuring a second book as an example:
Book 2 low bar Epub:
Book 2 low bar Kepub:
Book 2 navigation Epub:
Book 2 navigation on Kepub:
Hope you are able to see what I am struggling here so we can get a solution or closer to one. As of now I dont feel really glad of having the new features (reading stats) in spite of very crucial ones to me such as page numbers and proper page navigation. I wouldnt mind my proper whereabouts on a 60 page book but in such short books I wouldnt care less about readings statistics. And I feel desperate to see myself in the middle of a 500 page book, and on the low bar the display showing the chapter info something like page 4 out 17 or something useless like that.