Thread: Kobo Firmware 2.6.1
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Old 06-11-2013, 03:20 AM   #308
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Originally Posted by guma View Post
Assuming you are speaking for KOBO here: From a customer perspective this point of view is just plain not acceptable. epub2 is the current standard and should work properly. Even if epub3 comes along at some point in the future many people will still have epub2 files they want to read.
I think taming is talking for herself. I think I agree with taming that Kobo is not going to do much with the current epub2 reader application. I think it is on life support. But from what I can tell, Adobe already stopped working on their part of this. That makes it harder for the other companies to continue updating their reader applications.

Personally, what I expect to happen is for Kobo to drop the current reader for epubs and move everything into the ACCESS reader. There is still a lot of work to do to get there, but I can see that as a direction. It will only work if they drop the need to "kobify" the epubs and use a different method for tracking position and bookmarks. They should adopt the method in the epub3 standard. This works with epub2 as it is what the calibre viewer uses.

The exception to the above might be DRM protected epubs. Unless Adobe give them something to decode them so they can be rendered in a different reader, the existing reader might stay just for books with Adobe DRM.

All that is idle speculation. It seems reasonable, but whether it is correct, only time will tell.
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