Thread: can I buy Japanese eBooks outside Japan?
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Old 01-28-2018, 02:10 AM   #33
davidfor
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Originally Posted by AiiroMercury View Post
No I don't think that the problem is due to the font!!
"Check the font" is sort of the equivalent of "check your virus scanner". It is the problem often enough that it needs to be suggested.
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On the kobo store I couldn't buy the ebook but at least I managed to download the preview. The preview was perfect...the text was vertical with the pageturning from right to left and, of course, i could use the dictionary, which is very useful when you don't know how to read a kanji!!
As Kobo only makes the preview available as a kepub, then it will have used the kepub renderer. As I said, it handles Japanese and other non-European languages better than the epub renderer.
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With the azw3 file on the kindle app it works in the same way, but during the conversion with calibre something goes wrong!! Both epub and pdf coverted books have horizontal text and left to right pageturning. In the end when you put the files on the kobo, in the epub the text disappear while the pdf is ok, because is made of pics basically!! I think I'll try another azw3 to epub converter and see what happens!!
And again, that is why I suggested sending the book as a kepub. It is also possible that the conversion lost the language and page turning directions. I would expect calibre to handle this properly, but it's not something I have ever needed to do, so I don't know for sure. You would need to edit the book to check. The editor should show if the text is actually there or if it is missing.

You should do a test to see if the converted book works as a kepub. You can do this by copying the epub to the device and change the extension from ".epub" to ".kepub.epub". This is enough to trigger the use of the kepub renderer and should be enough to see if the book will work. If it does, then use either use the KoboTouchExtended driver to send the book to the device as a kepub, or install the Kepub Output plugin and do a conversion. Or the kepubify tool mentioned above. You need to do one of these so that things like remembering the reading position, navigation and bookmarks work properly.
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