Thread: Why Kobo didn't focus only on the U.S., home turf of Amazon
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Old 07-21-2017, 10:45 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice View Post
But why is Adobe's RMSDK incapable of reading EPUB3s? ADE is perfectly capable of doing it so Adobe obviously has support for it too. The books I had trouble with were specifically Japanese releases from the Google Play store. IMO it's still pretty crappy regardless of whose fault it is. Kobo claims Adobe EPUB DRM support and EPUB3 support but you can't do them both at the same time. Misleading I think.
The version of the RMSDK used in recent Kobo firmware IS capable of reading epub3's. But, as DNSB stated, it doesn't support all the features. Or as many features as the Kobo does for kepubs. I don't know what ePub3 elements are supported in each of these. Or what is supported in each version of the RMSDK.

As to ADE, which version are you talking about? I use 2.0.1 and I'm pretty sure it doesn't support ePub3. Or, if it does, it's just treating it as an ePub2.
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I know about KoboTouchExtended, but if the book is DRM locked I don't think it can touch the file? So without removing the DRM the only thing I could think you could do is rename it.
You are right about the KoboTouchExtended driver, but, if the book has Adobe DRM, renaming it won't help. The name change triggers use of the kepub renderer which doesn't use the RMSDK at all and hence cannot open books with Adobe DRM.
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