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Originally Posted by french25
Hi
I'm currently considering buying a Kobo H20 (I currently have a kindle paperwhite 1) ,but most of my ebooks are epub - not kepub. I've seen that the Calibre plugin to convert to kepub does not work on the current firmware, so my question is, what do I lose in term of reading experience if I only put epub on the Kobo H2O ? is the layout different ?
Thanks
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It really comes down to personal preference, some like kepubs, others (myself included) prefer epubs.
I would sum it up as: the kepub reader supports some extra features, but the epub reader does a better job at actually displaying text on the page:
Some extra kepub features such as cloud sync, in-book chapter progress charts, BeyondTheBook (extra content including articles about the author, locations in the story, etc.) only work with kepubs bought from Kobo; others such as popup footnote previews, page header containing the book title, double-tap to zoom images work with sideloaded kepubs too.
The epub reader does a better job at displaying embedded fonts, hyphenation, justification, and works better in full-screen mode.
Edit: My preference has changed since I first got my Glo. In older firmware versions, perhaps up to version 2.8.1, the kepub reader was better than the epub reader. However since then the epub reader has improved (bugs have been fixed) while the kepub reader has become worse overall (new features added, but also new bugs added that affect basic text layout functions like justification.)