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wingmongyee · 03-25-2018, 03:26 AM

@Cootey. The info davidfor gave is correct.

I also suggest you get the Kobo Utilities plugin. It gives you easy access to the driver.

You just have to set a button for the Kobo Utilities plugin on the Calibre toolbar. Then, if you want to access the driver, you just click on the small black triangle beside the button, and you get a submenu with one of the options being "Driver". From there, you get another submenu with two options, "Configure current driver" and "Switch between main and extended driver". So it's easy from there to configure the driver and/or to
switch between driver if for some reason, you wanted some book not to be converted in kepub when you transfer them (although I never myself found the need to do this).

Another selling point for KePubs:

Recently I got a book from a writer who has a very particular style. She doesn't use paragraphs or chapters. Her books are therefore long blocks of text without a break. I did some tests. When the book is loaded on the Kobo in ePub format without converting to KePub it takes ages for the book to open (I mean 5 or 10 minutes!) So long in fact that the first time I tried, I thought the Kobo was frozen and I was about to do a reset. Eventually the book opens, but then, each page turn takes 10 or 15 seconds or more. Or anyhow, long enough that I consider the book unreadable. In the KePub format however, the ebook becomes readable like any other book.

One thing to note however is that the on-the-fly conversion took substantially longer than usual, probably because of the large blocks of text. It took maybe 5 minutes, or anyhow long enough for me to think that Calibre was frozen. And another thing is that the book takes a little longer than other books to open in the Kobo ereader, (maybe twice as long), but once it is open, the page turn are as fast as all other books. So as an ePub, this particular book is virtually unreadable on my Kobo reader, while KePub makes it behave like any other books.

Cheers.

PS: I was recently explaining how I solved the problem with the ebook mentioned above to someone who said to me that it was a shame she had never heard of KePub before because if she had, she might not have gotten rid of her Kobo reader. She said she found it too sluggish compared to what she had been used too before, so she got rid of it and got something else instead. So I think the KePub format really makes a difference.

03-25-2018, 03:26 AM	#54
wingmongyee Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 15320 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kobo Glo HD	@Cootey. The info davidfor gave is correct. I also suggest you get the Kobo Utilities plugin. It gives you easy access to the driver. You just have to set a button for the Kobo Utilities plugin on the Calibre toolbar. Then, if you want to access the driver, you just click on the small black triangle beside the button, and you get a submenu with one of the options being "Driver". From there, you get another submenu with two options, "Configure current driver" and "Switch between main and extended driver". So it's easy from there to configure the driver and/or to switch between driver if for some reason, you wanted some book not to be converted in kepub when you transfer them (although I never myself found the need to do this). Another selling point for KePubs: Recently I got a book from a writer who has a very particular style. She doesn't use paragraphs or chapters. Her books are therefore long blocks of text without a break. I did some tests. When the book is loaded on the Kobo in ePub format without converting to KePub it takes ages for the book to open (I mean 5 or 10 minutes!) So long in fact that the first time I tried, I thought the Kobo was frozen and I was about to do a reset. Eventually the book opens, but then, each page turn takes 10 or 15 seconds or more. Or anyhow, long enough that I consider the book unreadable. In the KePub format however, the ebook becomes readable like any other book. One thing to note however is that the on-the-fly conversion took substantially longer than usual, probably because of the large blocks of text. It took maybe 5 minutes, or anyhow long enough for me to think that Calibre was frozen. And another thing is that the book takes a little longer than other books to open in the Kobo ereader, (maybe twice as long), but once it is open, the page turn are as fast as all other books. So as an ePub, this particular book is virtually unreadable on my Kobo reader, while KePub makes it behave like any other books. Cheers. PS: I was recently explaining how I solved the problem with the ebook mentioned above to someone who said to me that it was a shame she had never heard of KePub before because if she had, she might not have gotten rid of her Kobo reader. She said she found it too sluggish compared to what she had been used too before, so she got rid of it and got something else instead. So I think the KePub format really makes a difference.