Thread: Kobo WiFi and EPUB3 - NOT!
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Old 11-04-2014, 02:17 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by BryanK View Post
The problem here is, how do you distinguish between the old kepubs that work on the Kobo Wifi just fine and the new kepubs that have epub3 extensions?
Two techniques come to mind, one would be to scan the ebook and look for epub3 extensions, the other would be to open it with an epub2 renderer and see how it looks. Either would be fairly time consuming. I'd suspect that is why Kobo is now supplying ebooks that have the version 3.0 flag as kepub only with no epub download option to avoid issues with people attempting to open an epub3 fixed layout ebook using an epub2 renderer. Not that the ACCESS renderer looks all that great with a FLO ebook but at least it's readable.
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