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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Kobo seems to be schizophrenic in this regard, on the one hand they advertise "Read On Almost Any Device!" "Read Freely" on the other they make their own proprietary version of the most open format around.
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A KePub file, from what I've seen, is a fully-compliant EPUB2 document. I have a KePub file, from Kobo, in my calibre library and I haven't had any problem reading it on a non-Kobo device. Sure I'd like it if my reading position would synchronize across every device from every vendor (but without any compormise to privacy!) but I know when something is just wishful thinking
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
If they are deliberately making their "special" renderer a brick in their version of the garden wall, and upgrades making it more so, then how does that bode for the future?
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Kobo is one of the companies involved in Readium. Until such time as Kobo does something with that to make it apparent that they're trying to maintain the status quo, or they make their files unreadable on non-Kobo devices, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
...is a hack (and I mean that in a positive way...
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You listen to the mainstream media too much
Hacking in the context of technology is unlike other contexts in that it is inherently positive. When journalists and newscasters talk about "hacking", 99.9% of the time they would be more accurate to refer to "cracking" instead.