[arspr]

Possibly because I didn't have statistics in my old Sony, I don't miss them.

There are plenty of other reasons for using (or not) "kepubized" epubs rather than stats (image zooming is one of them, or the default lack or hyphenation another).

But I think that you cannot make strange tricks to get it working and with strange side effects. Remember that probably a lot of users of your plugin are just entry users. You would get tons of "my kepubized books have disappeared" reclaims.

And, as you say, it can also start a "war" against Kobo that doesn't make sense either. Trying to make them reconsider their decision about dropping stats in sideloaded kepubs is far more better. (More over, maybe even making them know about this issue. Maybe it's just a side effect of another really desired code change, and they just didn't think about what happened with unofficial kepubs which aren't their main concern anyway).