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Old 04-06-2021, 07:52 PM   #1
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New Kobo, ePub vs Kepub

Hi there, I’m delighted with my new Kobo Líbra, particularly the appearance of the fonts and page layout that make it appear so much more like the page in a book than my kindle does.

So, having read around in here over the past few days prior to its arrival, I knew I was probably going to prefer the page appearance in EPUB, being a stickler for kerning and ligatures and the tiny details that contribute to give this reader its gorgeous rendering.

Sure enough, after trying both formats, I greatly prefer the ePub. Although I like the visual illustration of chapter length, etc. and all the other good things in Kepub, I find the page layout is much better in ePub, with fewer split words, etc.

But... why is there always a but?

When I rotate my side loaded (saved the ePub format to the kobo from Calibre) EPUBs, they do a glitchy thing where the whole page shrinks, flashes, then resizes to the correct size.

Has anyone else seen this?

Can anyone suggest what to do? Is there maybe a patch?

I updated the firmware as soon as I got it as wanted to use the MyWords feature, as I’m a Kindle Vocabulary Builder user for my French.

Software version is 4.26.16704, dated 2/10/21
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