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Originally Posted by Odessa
Thank you, that's very clear now. And I suppose this means you must decide about the comparative advantages of the two formats, as explained here and debated here... Are those comparisons still valid ? |
Both of those lists of advantages and disadvantages for epubs and kepubs are out of date. Recent firmware has headers and footers for both formats that can be hidden. The header can show the chapter progress and the footer the full book progress.
The differences I can think of are:
Page numbering: Kepubs treat each screen as a page which means the number of pages changes with the font settings. Epubs use the Adobe page algorithm which means that the page numbers do not change with font settings, and if exactly the same epub is read on other devices or apps that use the Adobe RMSDK, the page numbering might be the same.
In book stats: Kepubs have a nice popup showing a graph of the chapter lengths with were you are in them, time left in this chapter, expected time for the next chapter and the whole book.
Footnotes: For kepubs, footnotes will display in a popup. For epubs, they are a link and take you to the page with the footnotes.
Images: Kepubs can zoom images by double-tapping them.
Peformance: Kepubs are faster for page turning, but, the difference is not as much as in the past. Highlighting in kepubs is also faster, but again, the difference is not as much as before.
Typography: Epubs handle this better. But, it is one of those things where either you care a lot about or you wonder what all the fuss is about.
Honestly, the best thing to do is to try them. Some people swear by one format, and others the other format. The typography and the page numbering are probably what get argues about the most. Though the page numbering methods is a more general topic of disagreement. Personally, I use both. I do read a lot from Kobo, so use kepubs for that. When I sideload, I tend to use epub, but, I like the chapter graph when reading, so will sideload as kepub when I feel like it.