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Old 03-25-2017, 11:49 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
my expeience is that a good Kobo+ sideload requires you to roll up your sleeves and get dirty with code changes.
if you simply sideload retail epub books and library loans, you can expect many of them to be an unreadable mess on which your sliders have no effect
I ended up ( kobo Aura HD ) needing all 3 of :
1. code in root directory to override the default top & bottom page margins.

2. addins to force epub to kepub conversions when sideloading

3. manual css edits for almost every book I want to read in a layout of my choosing, so that the device sliders actually worked

kindle is far more forgving. it processed pretty much any retyail book into a readable state, no matter how stupid the publishers font / line space etc decisions were.

ditto for the Moon + app on tablets. By ignoring / replacing the dafter CSS, it turns a published mess into a readable version most of the time, with no manual intervention cannot say the same for the Kobo app unless it has greatly improved since I abandoned it
I side load all my books, using Calibre. Have never edited any of my books, or felt the need
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