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Originally Posted by davidfor
Yes, we got carried away with theories before hearing back from you about what you actually saw.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Downloading the same book from Kobo over time can give a different version. And the epub and kepub versions aren't always in sync.
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Yes, I imagine that was the issue and I just didn't realise I'd picked up a new copy somehow.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
The missing text don't happen to start with words in italics or something? The epub renderer on the Kobos have a problem with incorrect nesting of tags. A book I was reading had song lyrics scattered through. At one point a chapter ended with a song and the start of the next chapter didn't make sense (the song was part of a seduction and the next chapter started with them waking up in bed, but mentioning something that didn't happen). When I looked at in the calibre editor, I found that the song was only about halfway through the chapter (they'd been interrupted by a friend in trouble). The code for the song lyrics looked like:
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<i>
<p>First line</p>
<p>Second line</p>
<p>Third line</p>
</i>
That is illegal code, but most HTML renderers will handle it. The version of RMSDK used on a Kobo doesn't like it and doesn't display anything after the closing i tag. The calibre editor will display this correctly, but the error check will highlight it. I'm pretty sure Sigil will fix problems like this when open the book. At least it used to, but, I don't know if that still happens automatically or you have to trigger it somehow.
The Sony PRS-T3 uses an older version of the RMSDK than recent Kobo firmware does. I would expect it to have the same problem. |
No italics or other special type stuff that I recall.
What's even weirder about her situation is how much of the chapter gets chopped seems to depend on which font style and size is chosen. Furthermore, you'd think that a larger font size might mean more of the chapter is chopped off because less words on the page before the chapter break. However some font styles chop off less of the chapter if the font is bigger compared to other styles in a smaller size.
In the end I installed the Calibre reader application on her little netbook and she is reading the book on that.