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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
And according to Kobo's content processing, I could send you plenty of EPUBs that the Kobo software won't open. Those of us with thousands of .pdb files that contain books, obtained most of them for their PDAs. Some of them came as "Secure eReader" files from Fictionwise or eReader.com.
Yes, technically .pdb files are Palm DataBase files, but practically the file type has made a place for itself as a format that you can find ebooks in.
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While you can find epubs that will not process on the Kobo, can you find me even one epub that will not process on a Kobo
AND will pass epub validation by FlightCrew and epubcheck? Inquiring minds are eager to know.
On another hand, I have quite a few .pdb files from the days when I owned a PalmPilot that are valid .pdbs but are not ebooks.
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I can't gage the odds of any particular epub passing the tests of any particular testing program, but I do know that whatever flaws they may have my other readers and reading programs have no trouble allowing me to read the books contained in the files. I don't consider Kobo's inability to read them as anything but poor error handling, for you to say that the files aren't good enough for kobo to be able to read them, while they can be read by other readers, smacks more of intolerance than of discernment.
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I have found quite a few ebooks that my Kobo will not handle. I also found some of those files give me issues opening them with ADE, CoolReader and Calibre on my PCs, iBooks and the Kobo app on an iDevice and using a Nook ereader. Given that in most cases, a Kobo ereader does a more intensive scan through the file to generate the database entries, I am not surprised that they are more sensitive to poorly constructed epubs than are most devices/applications.
So these troublesome epubs of yours ... have you tried running FlightCrew or epubcheck on them before blaming Kobo? You have noticed that several sites such as SmashWords require your epub to pass epubcheck before they are accepted?
Regards,
David