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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.
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This is only speculation because I don't have enough facts, but I do wonder if automated kobo-ising of css styles may be to do with trying to ensure (maybe badly) that the Kobo device font controls and sliders will work.
For instance, I always remove all occurrences of hard-coded
font-family: serif in my standard epubs because leaving them in will stop the Kobo font selection control working (except for one specific scenario). Whether it causes the same problem in a kepub I don't know. I can imagine it would also be desirable to change font-sizes set in non-scaleable units such as pixels.
Speaking for myself, I also would prefer to do any/all css-customising myself but I'm not the one fielding complaints on Kobo's helpdesk about device features not working as advertised
