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Originally Posted by roger64
@giorgio
For what I've read it's a very promising project for PDF and EPUB. But it's also quite young, namely regarding its adaptation to Kobo. So, thanks for providing these infos. I'll be keen to try it as a very average user it once we get your green light but I honestly prefer waiting some weeks -even months- rather than run into problems... 
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Although the Kobo port of koreader (previously known as kindlepdfviewer) is indeed very young, the actual software itself (kindlepdfviewer) is almost two years old (born on 22 November 2011).
Also, the main strength of this program is not ePub, but DjVu and much better than "built-in" PDF support. Using koreader for ePub files is, imho, a bit strange as the standard built-in reader is presumably adequate for that. I don't know, I don't read ePub files --- when I need to read ebooks then MOBI is my preferred format and Kindle Keyboard preferred hardware. (MOBI format itself is actually very inefficient, but Amazon's free 3G + 5GB cloud storage accessible from anywhere compensates for this).
But for PDF, DjVu and FB2 files, koreader (and kindlepdfviewer on Kindle) is an ideal tool.
The eInk devices normally sold as "ebook readers" are actually much much more than just "ebook readers", namely they are "real book readers", i.e. can read not only ebooks (FB2, MOBI, ePub, RTF, etc) but also real typeset or scanned books (PDF or DjVu, respectively). Unfortunately, many people don't understand the difference between glyphs and characters which leads to the difference between books and e-books and this causes some confusion.