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Originally Posted by davidfor
You don't explicitly state it, but I assume you are starting with a CBR or CBZ. If that is wrong, maybe the other comments will be.
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If CBZ are just plain archives of images without anything else, then yes. Basically I'm starting of with raw images only, that are laid out in a directory structure eg:
- Title
-- Chapter 1
--- Image 1
--- Image x
-- Chapter 2
--- Image 1
--- Image x
-- Chapter x
I can just zip these as 'cbz' but if those are valid 'CBZ' files... I don't know
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My first question on this is always: Why are you converting? The Kobo ereaders handle both CBR and CBZ without any conversion. And you can zoom the images when reading.
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Mostly because that's what I did when I got my first Kindle, i'm used to working this way and I can enable 'manga' mode for left-to-right reading (and also, I can tell KCC to split spreads into 2 pages). I have no idea if (and how) Calibre can do that.
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Your last post tells me that KCC generates the file as ".kepub.epub" and expects you to send that to the device. When you add that to calibre, it is added as an epub. And any later processing is done as an epub. Sending that to the Kobo device will mean the device sees an epub. You need the double extension for it to be seen as a kepub. You could use the KoboTouchExtended driver to send it, and that will do the extension fixing.
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Actually, even changing the extension back to .kepub.epub doesn't work, somehow something is changed within the file in flight.
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I'm surprised that the formatting was different when the comic was sent as an epub instead of kepub. I can't think of what could be in the books code that would do this. It's been a whiles since I tried, but I have put a kepub in the device as an epub with no errors in formatting. Maybe it is something in the way the images are done.
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I'll try & pinpoint what changes in flight
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When I tried KCC after the Kobo support was added, I couldn't convince myself it was better than the calibre conversion. Or just using CBR/CBZ. There is no way to turn the image resizing off, so that meant I had to generate a version for each Kobo device I have. And there is no way to generate a generic epub. And as kepubs support zooming, using the original images should work.
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The main advantage I see is the 'manga mode' that enables left-to-right reading.
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I should add that I don't read comics. I have done some playing with them on the Kobo devices in response to questions like yours and some bug reports. So, I might have missed something important for someone who does read a lot of comics.
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There are sample files on the KCC site (Ubunchu manga, it's creative commons), in case that helps