Here are links to two more ebooks I've purchased from the Kobo Canadian bookstore. Both have atrocious formatting under firmware 3.1.0 compared to earlier releases; again, the problem is the complete elimination of vertical spacing between elements (I imagine the problems also show up in the free previews of these books):
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebo...off-the-bridge
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebo...planet-blues-1
The first one, which uses a lot of complex formatting, shows the problem on almost every page.
The second one is particularly irritating for me, as it's one of my own novels. Look at the Copyright Page, the Dedication, and the beginning of any chapter.
I've provided links to works from a wide variety of commercial publishers (Workman Publishing and Penguin Canada in the two examples above); this is not a case of the firmware tripping up on the quirky formatting done by a single oddball publisher; this is an across-the-board problem.
I hope progress is being made on this.
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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
As GeoffR first noted, the new Kobo 3.1.0 firmware introduces a major new bug to the ACCESS renderer used for .kepub.epub books.
To quote Geoff: "Well the kepub reader stylesheet is quite screwed up in this firmware version. There is no vertical space between objects so everything just runs together. Also everything is in the same sized font, book title, chapter headings, text, everything. What a mess."
It may not be that all books are affected, but it's blatantly obvious -- the rendering under 3.1.0 looks atrocious -- with the titles I've checked from the Canadian Kobo store. Here are three that clearly demonstrate the problem; they look AWFUL under 3.1.0:
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebo...inking-clearly
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/social
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/burning-paradise
GeoffR's JPGs, posted above, don't do justice to the mess; comparing the above books on a Mini (which is immune to the 3.1.0 upgrade) or another E Ink Kobo that hasn't yet been bumped to 3.1.0 and you'll see. (I bought these books, but I imagine the problem shows up in the free previews, too.)
It's not just chapter heads that are affected but also subheads within a chapter, epigrams, picture captions -- anything with complex formatting.
It looks TERRIBLE.  |