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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I download an epub file and the Kobo rejects it but it reads fine on other ereading devices and on most software reading programs. You seem to be saying that if it is not fully in compliance with your testing programs and perhaps the epub standard, then the file is garbage. How do you then explain that other readers have no problem allowing the reading of this "Garbage File", and providing the story for my entertainment, while the Kobo can't. Can you explain how this is of benefit to someone who just wants to read the story?
Luck;
Ken
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I'm with you on this one. If my Sony can display it and my mother's kindle can display a converted version and 10 or so free or commercial apps can display the book, all in a similar and readable manner, I scratch my head and wonder why my Kobo's can't. Approximately 30 % of older books I have are in this category.
I can understand why people who have spent a lot of time and effort learning epubcheck etc., so they can fix the books to Kobo's limited interpretation abilities feeling that this is the thing to do. Possibly we would feel that way too if Kobo was our first ereader experience.
Generally I follow Kovid Goyal's advice and convert to mobi and back to epub, which fixes most problems without noticeably affecting the formatting etc. Not purist perhaps, but quick and easy
Still I mumble under my breath when doing it.
Helen