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Originally Posted by Josieb1
On the odd occasion I have sent an epub to my Kobo when I display it I get text right at the top of the screen and a big gap at the bottom. If the Full Screen Reading hack worked okay it wouldn't be an issue but as it has a few bugs I now prefer to have a header and footer and they display perfectly with kepubs.
I also use the Kepub Output Plug in which works seemlessley.
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The full Screen Reading hack and the hack to change the footer ,works perfect on My Glo and Aura HD so I think there is something wrong with your settings rather than the hack itself which are perfect.
In general,referred to the question:
I only use sideloaded epubs and I see no advantage of the kepub format, only that it displays more information about the chapter but I am only interested in on what page I am in the book and I am not interested in how many percentage it is or when I finish the chapter.
Information about percentage of the chapter isn't in a paper book and It doesn't give more reading experience when I do know it.
Thinks in my screen that adds something to the story in the book,okay.. but if I want stats I can look it up,i don't want it all the time visible, I am interested in the story of the book,want to read it,that is where a book is for, it is like turning on the EPG on the tv all the time to see how many minutes are left of the program until the next one start,it distracts from the real story.
The books in the kobo store are way to expensive compared to Google or Amazon and when I do a sync I get all the books back that I buyed at Kobo (1) and have to log in to put that off.
I can't say or deny that kebubs do load faster..the one I have and the two I converted (from epub to kepub) to test them,are not.
I don't like the format in means of wasting space by always visible headers and footers with information that does not add anything to the story itself,but then, I have always read only epubs on Sony since the 5 series.
A normal paper book only gives me information about the page I am, and I can look how big the part that I have to read is by it's size and when u are in the middle.
As I said,I am not interested how many percentage I still have to read,to have the title on my screen all the time at the top ( i do know what book i am reading and I need no device to tell me that all the time) it doesn't sync between 2 readers what book and page I am like Kindle does, I have more then 1800 books on Calibre but I send 20 books or so to my reader and change them at the moment I finished them, no need to have 500 books on the reader with 100 read already..the ones I already read only occupied space so I delete them and I see no advantage of the kepub rather then waisting space on my pages that can be used for txt.
With Calibre I always convert epubs in a way that they are lined up on the left, disable justify (hate that) and disable all alignments, I hate jumping txt all over the place leaving gaps,or stretch all txt to have full lines but a lot of spaces in it, so no empty spaces at every <p> tag.
My personal opinion,not for debate.
