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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
When using fullscreen, the information at the bottom of the screen can be brought up with two taps: options, then <->. Using ePub, that info isn't available at all, is it?
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Again, if you are using the chapter display, if it's not visible on the screen, it's not that useful IMNSHO. Having to do multiple taps on the screen distracts from reading.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'm wondering if instead of creating a new format and renderer, they could have used that manpower to add those features to their ePub renderer in the first place.
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Kobo did not create either renderer. AFAIK, the main reason for using the ACCESS Netfront renderer was expansion into the Japanese market required a renderer that was epub3 compliant enough to allow displaying Japanese text in all it's varied glory. Even now, Adobe's RMSDK is not up to the task though it has improved over the years.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'm not a coding expert, but I do know that on the Nook you can see how many pages remain in a chapter using ePub, something the Kobo still can't do (as far as I know), so changes can be made without creating a new format.
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I will admit to not really caring about how many pages remain in a chapter. Nor am I impressed by looking at the risible time to read numbers. One recent purchase from Kobo stated it was 350 pages, 95K words and would take about 7-8 hours to read which seems to assume ~200 WPM as the reading speed. 75 minutes later, I was down to 5 chapters out of 48 but the reading time was still in the hours to go.
I am more than happy to trade chapter page display for being able to read an epub3 fixed layout ebook such as the British Museum's
Harry Potter: A History of Magic?