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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
DNSB, you're making a technical distinction, and it's valid as such, but you're glossing over the philosophical point, which is that the INTENT of publishers and authors offering books devoid of digital rights management is that the AVERAGE user can easily download the book file and use it. It shouldn't be a scavenger hunt to find something with a nonintuitive name squirreled away somewhere; it shouldn't require expert knowledge (which knowing to rename a .kepub to .epub is); it should be easy: download to your desktop with one click, and open with the app of your choice without modification. THAT, my friend, is common sense.
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The point that I was making was that contrary to several statements in this thread the ebook in question does not have DRM. And no you are not renaming a .kepub to .epub though the correct option would be to name .kepub.epub to .epub -- the ebook as downloaded from Kobo's site has what looks like a GUID(*) as a file name with no extension.
Unfortunately, your common sense runs into the issue that epub3 ebooks may not display properly in an epub2 renderer. The cookbook I recently downloaded is a fine example of an epub3 fixed layout ebook. What Jon and I agree on is that all too many epub3 ebooks make no use of epub3 features so calling them epub3s is like lipstick on a pig.
My personal preference would be for Kobo to allow downloading a .epub either with or without Adobe's ADEPT DRM with the warning that this ebook may display like <expletive deleted> unless you are using an epub3 compatible program to view it. Caveat emptor. Unfortunately this runs into the number of people who would download the ebook, try to open it in, say, ADE 2.0 and scream for a refund.