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Originally Posted by Joliet Jake
There's at least two ways to sideload Kepubs, so Good Ereader's statement isn't helpful. (Standard Ebooks lets you legally download old and free books, including in Kepub format. If you use Kobo Touch Extended, you turn Epubs into Kepubs when you put them onto an ereader.) I'm sure someone here can tell me other ways to do so.
I think Good Ereader is implying you can only write on "official" Kepubs from the Kobo store, but some books are sold there without DRM. Giganticoctopus did testing, and it seems the book requires DRM if you want to write on it.
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Strictly, Kobo does not support sideloading kepubs. At least not for everyday use. The only reference to sideloading as kepub is in the guide for preparing books for the Kobo store. And that is just about helping to see what the book will look like. There is no reference to adding the spans that are needed for them to work properly. Or any other reference buy Kobo to support the format. They do work, and I don't think actual support will be removed. But, it wouldn't surprise me if the main reason it works is because the actual developers want it (makes some testing easier).
For annotations using the stylus, Kobo stated with the Elipsa that it would work with sideloaded epubs and PDFs. No mention of kepubs was made. I don't know if that was a deliberate choice or something missed somewhere. That it is not working for epubs with firmware 4.29.18730 on the Sage, is an error. Or at least, that is the feedback I have from Kobo.