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Originally Posted by ururk

I'm awaiting receipt of a Kobo Forma, and this is my first introduction to an e-ink reader. Been wanting one for a while now, am tired of reading books on my iPhone tethered to a power brick

I had two questions that have been bugging me, with one I cannot answer until my Forma arrives.

1) I have a variety of e-books in different formats - have moved them all to calibre. Several were from the publishers own sites in html format (ie, Baen's free ebook library). I spent some time figuring out how to import in such a way to auto-generate a TOC using headings. Anyhow, I did some limited css editing to change the format a bit on some of them, but the formatting is all over the place.

For Baen's free library, I'd suggest re-downloading in epub format. For other books, I have spent quite a few hours editing ebooks whose formatting is so bad that I find it painful to read them.

Originally Posted by ururk

Does Kobo render ePubs with your Kobo-specific settings on the device, or are the ePub styles used? Specifically, I prefer spaces between paragraphs, left justification. Or do I have to edit each e-book to strip out overriding styles?

Kobo's ereaders will use the styles embedded in the epub. For instance, a fixed line height will override the line height slider while the margin slider can increase the margins set in the epub but not reduce them. To get the ebook to match your requirements will require editing. What you will find is that many of the edits are repetitive and saved search/replace makes it much faster.

There have been several near religious arguments over respecting the publisher's embedded styles vs. allowing the user to override everything.

Originally Posted by ururk

2) I opted for the 8GB as I usually read one book at a time, and if I were to go on a trip would really only read two books at most. But I'm curious as to why people like to carry their entire library with them.

I suspect the real answer is because we can. Personally, I like having quite a few books available as options when I finish a book since a average book takes only 1.5-2 hours. I also keep quite a few manuals and other reference materials on my ereaders. The iPad Pro is better for PDFs but the Kobo works in an emergency.