Thread: Kobo Epub Compatibility?
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Old 01-18-2018, 09:19 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by wingmongyee View Post
@davidfor: I understand now.

Yes, the TOC were working fine in ePubs, and as I never really used the navigation bar as I rarely skip through a book, I never found out that you could skip to the next or previous chapter. It was only the progress and time left per chapter that I noticed and appreciated with KePubs.
When reading epubs, I will use the navigation bar to skip to the next chapter to see how many pages are left in the current chapter.
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I wonder why these two options are not available with ePubs. I find them invaluable when I'm reading at a coffee shop and wondering if I should try to finish a chapter or start a new one. I don't like to stop reading mid-chapter, it's one of those things...
Completely different renderers and other support code are used for the two formats. It's probable that the libraries used for epub don't supply functions needed. But, it is also possible that Kobo decided not to implement them for epubs to give a differentiator. Or even more likely, a bit of both.
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