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Originally Posted by khahoon
Thanks for explanation. The ereader does not give any link, it directly downloads whatever its native format which in general has the messed up pdf conversions of old/non english books. If one uses the Kobo web page to access the book then one can see the pdf version. And that is what I am asking precisely, just let us see that pdf link "in the ereader" itself not just in the web page of the book.
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Thanks for the clarification. That appears slightly different from your original post. It now seems that what you want is for the bookstore connector within the app to display a choice of formats instead of going with its native epub/kepub format.
As for the free ebooks which many of the older books are available as, you run into the problem that many of them are not stored on the Kobo site. Taking a look at one ebook (A Vindication of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Exeter), the epub version is garbage but free garbage. The PDF version is better but neither come from the Kobo site -- the download links point off to
http://ia600504.us.archive.org/13/it...00oldiuoft.pdf
http://ia600504.us.archive.org/epub/...uoft&type=epub
I would have to agree with what you said as the epub version makes you wonder why anyone would OCR handwritten pages and not bother with cleaning up the results. They could have used an epub file to display the page image files. Not all that much work to doing so and definitely easier to read than the #$%^U OCR though it ends much the same size as the pdf version.
OTOH, since the Kobo app for Android does not support pdf format files, we come full circle to what I see as an oddity in wanting the Kobo app to be able to download a file it can not use when your Android device will have a web browser that will allow you to handle that task.
Regards,
David