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Originally Posted by digital punk
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.
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Kobo made a choice to (mostly) respect publisher formatting -- sadly many of the publishers make very poor choices about their formatting. I tend to prefer Kobo's choice to follow the epub styling. I tried and dumped Coolreader on my Glo because I was never certain that it even read the epub's stylesheet.
Other ereader/software seem to ignore the publisher formatting and go with their own generic formatting. This tends to give a more consistent look but also tends to make any special formatting look like garbage -- a quoted poem or an ordered list as an often horrible examples.
My personal opinion is that arguing about that choice is about as sensible (and useful) as arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's a matter of personal choice or simply what came with your dedicated ereader.
I do edit the majority of the epubs I read using Sigil to clean up what I regard as poor choices on the part of many publishers. Baen (which I get quite a bit of my science fiction fix from) and Harlequin (which my wife gets her romance fix from) seem to have spent the time to get a consistent and decent style for their epub ebooks. Other publishers are definitely in the cold pancakes and no honey category -- as an example, one recent epub I purchased had the title of the books shown on two overlapping lines and this was consistent on all the devices and software I opened it on other than an older version of ADE on a Mac.
Regards,
David