Thread: Kepub format questions
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Old 02-07-2019, 10:46 PM   #21
davidfor
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
It doesn't. But Calibre conversion and the Kepub output go together. You cannot use the Kepub output plugin without Calibre, so you cannot avoid the extra Calibre cruft.
Sorry, your comment was following on from discussion of the driver. I assumed you meant the changes came from that.
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Well, the meta tag is deprecated in Epub 3.0.1 and removed in 3.1.
Looks like it is replaced with opf:meta. Or at least that is what is in the epub3 I just created.
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Also, I manually go and clean every book I own and like to keep it that way.
I clean the books and make sure the metadata is correct. But, I don't care about the layout of the OPF or NCX. About the only thing I do in the OPF is to set the language to "en-GB" so the spelling checker shows less errors if the book appears to use UK English. And that's basically if there is more "colour" than "color".
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It can't do batch conversion while preserving file structure and only modifying changed files.
Ok, that's a difference in viewpoint. To me, deciding which file and where tends to be the responsibility of the controlling script.
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Yes, I agree with that, but I know the difference myself if that's that you're implying.
It was for other readers. I'm a bit tired of the, "But I thought I had to install it" response after someone complains about books turning up as kepubs.
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None of my Kobo books use it. As for the epub3 metadata, I don't think Kobo will do it (it's even less likely), as the current metadata extraction is not complex enough to handle the epub3 style without some changes. I think I might be able to patch it to read Calibre metadata though, if I can find some unused space I can fit the code in along with another variable.
I'm sure the firmware doesn't read the epub3 metadata at the moment. But, if I can find it in a book I got from Kobo, I can justify a bit of a push to read it. And hopefully fix some of the other things at the same time.
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