Thread: Aura H2O How to make it so that epubs look the same in both Calibre and on the H2O?
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Old 01-30-2017, 05:15 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by sk2003 View Post
Thanks for the responses, everyone. I'm pretty sure I've resolved my issues once and for all.

The naming issue: that's my fault entirely, and has nothing to do with the Kobo. It's to do with Calibre metadata. I resolved the issue by renaming my Calibre folders.
Are you renaming calibre folders? If you are renaming folders inside the calibre library, you will break things. And the Kobo devices don't care about the file name. They read the metadata from the the file. If you have the metadata correct and send the book to the device, the metadata will be updated. Calibre doesn't automatically update the metadata in the book when you make a change. It does this when you use send to device or save to disk. Or during a conversion, Polish books or embed metadata.
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As for the kepub.epub and epubs not showing dropcase letters properly fiasco: the issue was the conversion options I was selecting. Now I know not to remove spacing or embed fonts.

I now know that the whole kepub.epub thing is only done in order to make nickel treat epub files as kepubs (whether they're the same format in the end, I don't know). I like seeing the amount of page numbers remaining in a chapter, rather than the entire page count, so I like renaming the extensions to .kepub.epub.
If you just rename the epub, the bookmarking and reading position doesn't work properly. The extended driver or conversion to kepub adds the code to the book to solve this.
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Thanks for the in-depth answer as always. I'm a complete noob at this. I've never read an epub before, seriously. This is my first foray into epub files and e-readers. I'm a PDF person; if I ever have to read anything it's usually on a computer as a PDF file. I don't mind sharing the file, but I'm pretty sure the forum bans you from sharing stuff that isn't in the public domain (the book was released in 1985).
For books covered by copyright, then we can arrange something PM to get to look at it. Or a sample might do. Posting the code from the start of the chapter plus the stylesheet might give enough to see.
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