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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Please elaborate  All my books are standard epub and they all look exactly as I expect them to look as per their internal css. |
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What sort of problems are you experiencing with the ADE ePub engine? I've been reading up on Kobo because I plan on ordering an H2O in 2 weeks and I have not read of any real issues.
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Okay, here are some of the problems with the .epub engine on Kobo.
Some stock fonts do not display bold nor italics.
Widows and orphans have to be manually set through conversions, hacks on the device or editing each individual .ePubs css. Otherwise the default setting of the firmware will display .ePubs with pages where half the page has no text quite often.
The .ePub engine still ignores embedded fonts from the css.
With widow and orphans on there is still a problem with .ePubs where some pages have room for another line of text but it still gets pushed to the next page. This is not the long paragraph bug but does have something to do with widow and orphans and how they display on the device.
Annotations still have the problem with reopening .ePubs on the main memory messing up the percent read and the chapter the book is in.
And there is still a lot of .epub3 features missing even though they seem to find their way into the .kepub engine just fine. Which was my whole point, Kobo is actively adding features at a much faster pace for the .kepub engine then they are for the .ePub engine. They are actively pushing their own proprietary format while keeping hobbled the other option, all to give themselves an unfair advantage. Most people don't even know that Kobo pushes their own format thinking all Kobos are mainly .ePub devices. Kobo of course does nothing to dispel this myth leaaving their users to figure out on their own that all Kobo's are mainly .kepub devices that read .ePubs as a secondary and widely less developed alternative/option.