Thread: John Scalzi Lock-In not downloadable in epub format
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Old 09-28-2014, 01:44 AM   #73
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Not all Tor books are impacted because not all Tor eBooks are ePub 3. The ePub 2 eBooks are not converted to kepub. it is the newer ePub 3 eBooks from Tor that get converted to kepub. Kobo does this so it gets read with the Access renderer in Kobo eInk Readers.
Not quite right, Jon. Epub 2 books are also converted to kepub. Those are the ones that can be directly downloaded to your Kobo ereader or a Kobo app (Windows, Mac, iOS and Android), sync your reading position across multiple devices, etc.

The difference is that epub2 ebooks are also available as downloadable epubs readable on any epub2 software/device while epub3 ebooks are not. What would make sense to me would be Kobo changing their system to treat epub3 ebooks with a toc.ncx as epub2.
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