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Originally Posted by rashkae
Advantages of Kepub:
- Much faster response to page turns.
- Better image display, with a fine grained dither that makes the e-ink 16 shakes of grey look just like a full greyscale image.
- Font selection will fall back to a font that has any missing glyphs. That means, books with unusual or foreign language Unicode characters will display properly, even if the font is not embedded in the book. You can Sideload a font for languages / scripts that Kobo does not support. I like Arial Unicode MS as a catch all.
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I have to make some disagreements here.
One reason that kepub may seem slightly faster is that kepub cannot have as much text on screen because of bugs with Access. I have a wider line height and a wider left/right margin. That means I get considerably less text on screen. And finally, ePub has gotten faster in some of the 4.3 firmware versions. I have not yet tried the new 4.4 version.
The better images is a thing of the past. ePub now renders images quite well since the OS was updated to 32bpp.
Now as to the font, that's not a disagreement as such. What I do disagree with is a sans-serif font for reading with. A font such as ChareInk makes a much better catchall because it's a much nicer looking font and it's weighted rather well for eInk.