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Originally Posted by DNSB
Jailbreaking? What's jailbreaking? Is it something like rooting? Ain't that what the hogs do? 
As a Kobo owner, I prefer editing the epub using Sigil or/and calibre's editor so no jailbreaking, rooting, patching or installing alternative apps required.
Compared to a few years back, quite a few publishers now do a half decent job of formatting their ebooks but there are still quite a few that are downright ugly enough that I feel the 15-20 minutes to clean up the formatting is worth while. For what my opinion is worth, I think that most apps that do not follow publisher styles are crap. Takes me back to the bad old days of reading a text document.
So for the most part, I buy a book and read it, there are times when the workflow goes buy the book, start reading, pause to retch, edit and then complete reading the book. |
Very well said! I'm in the other boat: I like to read books without tweaking css in calibre or sigil, so my perspective is the opposite: any app that doesn't allow me to set the css style I want is not suitable for me.
I use sigil to remove corporative BS in the books I buy (yeah, ebooks in spain came with corporative stuff like "you might want to read these other few titles that we publish") and to tweak css in the documentation I write but not for remove css on a book I buy.
So jailbreaking, rooting, installing apps is just about choice. As e-readers use the same underlying oses than general purpose computers, they're -sometimes- capable of running other software.
But yeah, even if I'm a geek I wouldn't recommend my workflow to others, unless others ask me directly: how do you deal with x?