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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
I have no knowledge of the workings of kepubs whatsoever. Where does one find this information?
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The little official documentation is
https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec. But, for most purposes, it is just an epub. The reader application on the Kobo ereaders is different. It uses ACCESS rather than the Adobe RMSDK as the renderer. There are a few extra's that Kobo has coded in the reader. An example is that footnote are displayed as a popup. There is a link to the location. Another is some nice in-book stats.
The only real issue with kepubs is that they use a different reading position method. The kepub conversion wraps each sentence in a span with an id. This id is used for the location for the current position and bookmarks. There are calibre plugins to convert to kepub either in the library or when sending to the device.
You can test any epub as an kepub simply by copying it to the device with the extension ".kepub.epub". This triggers treating it as a kepub. Everything except the reading position will work. It will remember the chapter, but not where in the chapter.