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Originally Posted by rjcroy
All this talk of epub vs kepub and firmware patches reminds me how immature this ebook technology still is. Truly mature technology just works. Obviously I don't mind too much--I like technology and I'm willing to edit CSS files to get ebooks looking decent. But when I'm doing it do think 'this is a little crazy'. But I have thought ever since I started reading on ereaders 5 years ago, that this technology is still brittle, and not truly user friendly.
Maybe on a Kindle you don't have this problem. But then their typography engine is so primitive that clearly they have a long way to go too.
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The problem is kobo displays epubs differently to their own version of ePub which is kepub. With epubs you get text straight to the top of the page with a really big gap at the bottom. Kepub, which normally you buy through kobo look like the normal page of a book.
With kindle Amazon ebooks and personals ebooks display the same. Amazon has a lot less choices with regard to display but they are better for a straight out of the box usage, and personal docs can be simply emailed to your kindle which is easy to understand for most people.