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Originally Posted by gigapoctopus
Kobo does state that kepubs will work with both Elipsa and Sage at https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...th-Kobo-Stylus
"While reading, you can write and highlight on the page just like a real book. For example, you can write on the margins and circle key words. Note: Kobo Stylus only works with Kobo Sage and Kobo Elipsa. Supported file types
You can use your Kobo Stylus to write notes on these files:
- Kobo ePub (.kepub)
- ePub (.epub)
- PDF (.pdf)
Note :Your Kobo Stylus cannot write notes on DRM-Protected PDF files and PDF files that disables annotations and markups. " |
The problem with that is that if you try to sideload a book with the extension ".kepub", it will be ignored. You need to have ".kepub.epub". And when you download a kepub from their server, it does not have an extension.
If you look at the specs for the device, it has:
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15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR)
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And I've always thought it was fun that Kobo ePubs are not mentioned. Which means they don't support their own format. But, I think it is supposed to mean what formats can be sideloaded.
From this, there is either a mistake in the guide where someone added "(.kepub"), or a bug in the firmware that is not handling that as an extension. If the latter, it has been that way for a long time. To my mind it is the documentation. None of the extensions should have been included above. They are not needed and, as we can see, just confuse things.