Thread: kepubify v3: A fast, standalone EPUB to KEPUB converter (plus covergen/seriesmeta)
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Old 09-02-2020, 09:21 PM   #145
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Brain View Post
Thank you! I found the option. Admittedly the second paragraph at the moment goes over my head. I'll probably get it later when I read more about it.
At the moment, there are three ways to produce a kepub:
  • A conversion in calibre. This uses the full conversion pipeline. It will mean a lot of changes are made in the book. This can include rewriting the stylesheet, reformatting the book, rebuilding the ToC, resizing the images and a lot more. It will also add the converted kepub to the calibre library. To get this onto the device, you need to send it from calibre.
  • The KoboTouchExtended driver. This copies the epub and adds the necessary spans to it plus a few other changes necessary for the book to work as an epub. It doesn't do any of the other changes mentioned above. When these changes are made, the kepub is sent to device. It makes no changes to the calibre library.
  • Using kepubify. This also works on a copy of an epub. It makes the same sort of changes as the KoboTouchExtended driver. The kepub can be sent to the device or put somewhere else to be used later.

The best choice from the above is up to you. If you are a calibre user, then the KoboTouchExtended driver is the simplest choice. But, it will transform all epubs to kepubs when they are sent to the device. If you don't want to read everything as a kepub, then you might be better doing the conversion to kepub. This allows you to convert books where the kepub features are useful (especially images and footnotes) but stick with epubs for other books. If you are not a calibre user, then kepubify makes sense.

I probably should say that by "calibre user", I am meaning someone that uses calibre to manage their library. While @twowheels uses calibre, they are using it as part of their toolset and managing their books some other way. And kepubify is also in their toolset.

I am definitely a "calibre user". I manage my library using it and manage my devices as well. I tend to use epubs, but, also read kepubs for books I have purchased from Kobo. I do sideload as kepub sometimes. I usually turn the KoboTouchExtended driver on when I do this, but, I do have plenty of books I have converted to kepub in my library.
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