Thread: Epub vs kepub
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Old 12-17-2021, 01:21 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by tschucha View Post
I've read that converting epubs to kepubs results in a little snappier performance on kobo readers. I'm currently using a Kobo Sage, always read epub format books and wondered if this was true and if there are any advantages to converting my books to kepub format.

Is it worth it to use Calibre to convert to kepub format?
KePub allows better stats. Images can be zoomed. KePub supports popup footnotes.

ePub supports better typesetting with kerning, ligatures, hyphenation, and variable spacing between words. KePub can be made to do some of these things, but it's not done as well.

So I would say go with ePub for eBooks that do not have images you'll want to zoom and that do not have footnotes.
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