Thread: ebook rendering - calibre vs mobile device
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Old 09-21-2021, 10:13 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by gryzor2327 View Post
Thank you so much, your reply is extremely valuable.

This raises a very stupid question in my mind : am I loosing anything if I just decide to publish my books with foobar.kepub.epub filenames rather than foobar.epub ? Would that be considered as "good practice" ?
As @Quoth said, kepubs are only for Kobo. And you can't publish them directly. You supply the epub to Kobo and they generate the kepub from that. Anyone buying the book from Kobo will get access to the kepub through a Kobo device or the Kobo apps. They can also download the epub from the store.

The kepub is an epub, but, there are spans wrapping each sentence with an id. These are uses for the location mechanism. Without them, the location will not be stored properly and the book will probably be reopened to the beginning of the chapter you closed the book on. If you want to sideload the book as a kepub, you can do this with calibre and the appropriate plugins or the separate kepubify tool.
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