[digital punk]

Hey just got a new Kobo Touch. No reason other than it was cheap. And my Kindle 4 got trod on (second time I've drunkenly trashed a Kindle).

Very disappointed however with the amount of format/presentation errors I'm seeing on the Kobo. These are epubs from books that (in mobi form) looked fine on the Kindle.

After a quick investigation it seems like Kobo won't override style commands in the same way that other readers apparently do. This means that you: a) may not be able to change the style of font; b) may not be able to change the line spacing; c) may experience large irregular gaps at the bottom of the page. And possibly there are other presentation issues that I haven't come across yet which are similar in origin.

If you're having similar problems you may want to batch convert epubs in calibre to remove the offending commands. What I did was as follows:

Select all the books in Calibre and press Bulk Convert. Inside "Look and Feel" click "Filter Style Information". Type in the following: font-family, line-height, widows, orphans . Click OK! Calibre then removes those commands from the entire set of books you selected.

That's the main thing you need to do. It might be worth setting the line height to 100% and clicking on "remove spacing between paragraphs". Haven't fully tested these options but seems to improve presentation slightly.

Make sure you delete the old epubs from Kobo before sending the new versions.

Hopefully that helps users that are noticing simliar problems!

Interested in what other people have to say. I'm not exactly an expert. If I discover any related issues I'll post em here.