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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I have a book I bought at Sony that was kepub only when it transferred to Kobo. The books are different - the epub has the chapter headings as a clickable link and has the font specified as serif. The font size is also bigger in Calibre's viewer for the kepub.
So the books are different and there may be other differences in other books. If I don't know what they might change in a book I'd prefer to have the original.
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I've noticed something else. When you have a DRM free kepub and you view it in ADE 2 it looks one way and after you use Modify ePub to strip the kepub junk, it then looks another way. Both of these differences are still different then the way the original ePub looks in ADE 2.
So what we've found is that the kepub process is changing the CSS/XML enough to change the original formatting. This is unacceptable. I use the original crappy formatting to see how to fix the formatting. With it changed, it's not as easy to know what's what. For example, if section breaks have only a 1em space, after the kepub process, it might not have these section breaks any longer.
So whoever thinks it's OK to get a kepub from Kobo (instead of the original ePub) because we can strip the DRM and strip the kepub additions is wrong. We cannot fix what's been changed in the CSS/XML to make the formatting different.
So please, let's all tell Kobo to stop frigging making the ePub we want to buy into kepub. If we want kepub, we'll download with Kobo Desktop and get kepub.