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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As documented by this thread, it seems tied to EPUB3 books.
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Yep. And, as has been said before in other threads where this was discussed, it is not total senseless idiocy that Kobo slap their kepub stuff on epub3 books, kepubs being rendered by a different engine on Kobo readers, one which has much better epub3 support than the Adobe RMDSK engine, which is used to render regular epubs.
The problem is that there are more and more epub3 books published that should really be epub2, having no special epub3-specific features. For those books, Kobo's policy doesn't make any sense, and they should change it. And my hope is that the blue download buttons are there because Kobo are working on finally enabling ordinary non-kepub download of epub3 books.