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Originally Posted by svda
As I am new to Kobo may I ask what the purpose is to kobofy an epub to kepub, since you can sideload epubs ? What are the advantages of kepub over epub ?
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The only real advantages for me is that footnotes show in a popup rather than showing on a page which I need to return from and that images alone on a page can be zoomed (handy with some graphs and maps if they are stored in a high resolution image). Otherwise, the chapter read time, showing the number of pages in a chapter rather than in the whole book, etc. are cold pancakes and no honey.
The kepub format adds some extra <span id="kobo.xx.xx> tags which seem to be used for more accurate positioning within the chapter (annotations, re-opening a chapter).
If you are reading non-Latin alphabet languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, the ACCESS renderer used for the kepub files can take advantage of epub3 features to display text in right to left or vertical formats.
Since epubs and .kepub.epubs use different renderers, there are times when I've checked issues with an ebook by renaming the files to switch renderers. I also use the .kepub.epub filetype when playing with epub3 documents since the ACCESS renderer is close to epub3 compliant. You can check the ACCESS and Readium sites for more information.
Edit: One further item is that you need the Adobe Reader Mobile renderer to handle Adobe's ADEPT DRM -- library books and other Adobe DRM protected epubs. Kobo has their own DRM scheme for kepubs which is not compatible with Adobe's DRM.
Regards,
David