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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I am using a Sony Reader PRS-T1 and it uses an earlier version of the ADE RMSDK. I don't see anyone complaining about it the way you seem to be. I know it has some bugs (Adobe's bugs), but overall it works well for the eBooks I read. I don't actually need ePub 3 as I read text. I don't read audio or video. I don't read right to left text or vertical text. For the eBooks I read, ePub 2 is good enough and that's what the RMDSK in my T1 supports. It will work with s basic ePub 3, but then that sort of ePub 3 uses no actual ePub 3 features other then the NAV ToC.
Kobo HAS to use Adobe's RMDSK because of the DRM support. Without it, you could not borrow most library ePub and most bought eb with DRM (not Kobo's own DRM) would not work. if I am not mistaken, the one being used in firmware 3.8.0 and 3.11.0 is the one that's equivalent to ADE 3. It's newer then the one I use on a regular basis. It does support hyphenation and the one in the T1 does not.
What is wrong with regular ePub reader (ADE RMDSK)on the Kobo that's not a problem on other Readers that use some version of ADE RMDSK? I m interested if what you think is a bug is actually the way it is or if it might be a bug unique to Kobo.
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Maybe this is to simple to say: I bought an e-reader, I didn't bought a kepub reader with epub support (it isn't advertised as this).
Now Kobo gives a lot of attention to it's own internal reader and most of the fixes went for this.(IMHO)
The prs-t3 does not have problems with the build in ADE RMSDK, so it would be simple without understanding the internet,to say or think,or understand,that there is something wrong the way the kobo readers use the build in RMSDK,or call functions from the build in RMDSK.
That are things Kobo can fix.
The reseller in The Netherlands does only sells EPUB, Google books does and all the other shops do as well as the publishers.
Only the Kobo shop in the Netherlands used Kepubs, but they don't have the newest edition like Bol or Google books have,or it is way to expensive.
On the vendor pages in the Netherlands like Bol, the kepub format isn't even announced. ( only EPUB, PDF, MOBI, TXT, HTML, XHTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR)
But reseller Bol get a lot of returns,and questions by example for the space between the txt and the footer. ( and i can't recommended the patch on their forum)
If there are technical problems in a country where you sell the readers,and got a lot of the market because Sony stopped, you can't ignore the problems with the RMSDK as that is the most used one here.
90% of the sold books in The Netherlands are epub.
How does marketing defends that the Aura HD and H20 have unpatched the same displayed text on a 6.8 inch screen as there is on a 6 inch Sony.
On the Glo and Aura there is even less txt on a page.
It is logical that customers compare Sony and Kobo because Sony was the most sold one,and now 90% of the dealers sell Kobo as they need a replace for the Sony.
I know ,or understand,that a lot of functions can be added to their own reader and that they can't change much to the ADE reader due to copyrights or licences from Adobe, but that is not my problem,
Kobo has placed itself in the Netherlands as a epub reader (doesn't even advertise with the Kepub format) so it is normal that people compare the Sony against the Kobo and they seen the difference.
If they use the same RMSDK,then the way Kobo uses it, is sometimes wrong or buggy.
Like the paragraph bug.. it is solved after so many updates where they didn't do anything with it,but the problem never was on any Sony device using the same RMDSK.
If you don't solve the problems a new party will take over, like Icarus and Onyx, a lot of buyers from Kobo change into this ones.
They got so many returns that they even sell them refurbished.
As a customer, I have nothing to do with the build in RMDSK or Kepub reader, I buy a reader that have to work.
If Kobo point to the RMDSK,is not my case allso, the other brands using the same without problems but even when it was not the case, on the Netherlands market they profile theirself as a e-reader for ebooks.
then you can't ignore RMDSK problems by saying, it is not our fault,its Adobe.