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Originally Posted by El Duderino
Boy, am I ever glad I didn't go down the kepub route! I'm reading issue after issue with it.
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Most of the kepub vs epub decision is personal. For example, Jon has a bee in his bonnet about what he considers to be wasted space on the screen. But, a lot of people like a little extra space on the sides or at the top and bottom. And the advantages of kepubs (zoom on images, footnote popups, lot easier to tap a footnote link, the in-book stats) might compensate for any problems seen. And Jon constantly rants about the hyphenation being bad. I wouldn't have a clue as I don't use the fully justified mode in either format so I have no idea how bad either is. And Jon does forget that the epub renderer isn't perfect.
Of the things Jon mentioned, the only one that bugs me is the difference in font size. For someone who has chosen a format and sticks to it, that won't matter. I tend to read books I have bought from Kobo as kepub and sideload as epub. I worked out how to handle this ages ago. I will sideload as kepub if I think there is an advantage for a particular book. Lots of images and footnotes are the major reasons.
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Not sure if changing your Kobo driver in Kobo Utilities is necessary, but if one has a managed library in Calibre, couldn't they convert their kepubs to epubs, replacing the kepubs on the device rather simply? I say simply knowing it would be time-consuming, especially if epubs are then polished, and you may lose reading stats, annotations, etc.
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From the point of view of the device, a kepub version and an epub version of a book are two unrelated books. You can have both on the device and swap between them. If you swap, the reading stats are separate for the two versions. If you start reading one version, remove it and put the other on and read it, you only lose the visibility of the stats. The total reading time will include the time from both versions. The sensible way to handle this is try a few books as kepubs and decide if you prefer it. Then go forward from there with the format you like. And leave the older finished books there unless you want to reread.
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These issues really only affect side-loaded kepubs, correct?
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Most of the problems people report for kepubs will affect downloaded books as well. There have been problems that were sideloaded only, but the generation of kepubs by the extended driver or a conversion has been improved to the point that I don't think there are any real differences. Except for the recent problem with kepubs on the external SD card. I haven't checked, but I am sure that won't affect purchased books.