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Originally Posted by PeterT
This depends fully on what format the book is in-
Stock ePubs won't show those stats, only so called kEpubs which are either books bought from Kobo and downloaded via WiFi from Kobo or Kobo Desktop, or books sent via calibre and the Touch extended driver-
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Your problem is the difference between eBooks rendered as ePub2 books and eBooks rendered in the more advanced ePub3. Kobo eReaders come with both the Adobe Mobile Reader software which is basically an ePub2 rendering engine, and a second one developed by Kobo that implements more of the ePub3 standard.
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong but I believe you can instruct a Kobo eReader to use the Kobo rendering engine by changing the filename of the book. Assuming you’ve registered your eReader already, you download the ebook to your computer, then locate the file and change the filename like this:
Mybook.epub (original ePub2 file for use with the Adobe Mobile Reader rendering engine). Insert the text “kepub” like this: Mybook.kepub.epub This directs a Kobo eReader to use the Kobo rendering engine rather than the Adobe one.
It’s easier to buy your DRMed (copyrighted) books from Kobo.com in the first place and download them by simply syncing your Ereader. For books that do not have DRM, like the many eBooks available free here on Mobileread, changing the filename is easy, or using calibre as PeterT suggested, has more features and is more effective.