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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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.
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Before I purchased my first Kobo ereader, I used multiple tools to clean up the ebooks I was reading. For the most part, to give them a consistent appearance with the margins, line spacing, chapter titles, tables of contents, cover images, paragraph indents, etc. set the way I wanted them. Transferring those cleaned up ebooks to a Kobo reader has resulted in me seeing very few problems with reading ebooks other than minor issues such as the original Kobo ereader firmware not liking apostrophes in file names.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court was acceptable.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court triggered a DRM error.
As for spending a lot of time and effort learning these tools? Sigil has a learning curve mostly related to learning the ins and outs of it's regular expression parser which makes cleaning up a crap ebook an expletive deleted lot faster. FlightCrew and epubcheck with GUI front ends have (in my opinion) virtually no learning curve. Batch checking does require a bit of experience with batch/script files but for single files, it doesn't get much simpler than dropping a file on the application and looking at the error messages (if any).
Other people's opinions may vary -- we each have our own skill sets and experience.
Regards,
David