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Originally Posted by davidfor
It isn't needed, unless you want it. The features of kepubs include:
- Popup for footnotes
- Can zoom images
- In-book progress stats
- Slightly faster page turning (but not fast enough that I notice it)
The features of epubs include:
- Uses Adobe page numbering
- Supports rendering features such as ligatures
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The only kepub feature I miss is image zooming, and only occasionally. The footnote feature doesn't always work. Also a tiny superscript [1] is hard to use. I think if there ARE footnotes the word/phrase should be part of the link and it should be in an appendix with links back. It it's one line then the note should be marginalia in the next paragraph break. Footnotes on ebooks are generally terrible. I do like the idea of a pop-up note, but since it's poorly supported on ereaders and apps generally and is erratic on the kepub, it's like client side image maps. Should have been there from the very start but that ship has gone.
I'm not fussed about ligatures other than ones indented by the author (æ, œ as needing ones for fl, fi etc are font & kerning issues, not authoring) or page numbers. I'd only use page numbers on a paper book with a contents page or index, with the system TOC and search they are not needed on an ebook. I've not used them in any other sense since school and ONE lecturer at University. Then everyone had the exact same paper editions.