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Originally Posted by CerealAssassin
Interesting. In the meantime, do you think the typesetting differences are significant enough to warrant using ePubs over KePubs? Cause you’d be giving up the KePub specific features like image zoom, faster searching, etc and I assume ACCESS is only gonna get better with time as Kobo update it vs RMSDK which it seems like they’re never touching again & only keep for Overdrive books.
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There is a much better way to answer that question than asking anyone on this forum. Test it yourself. Really, only you can make that decision.
But, if you look at the responses to questions about why people use epubs or kepubs, for those who have made a deliberate decision (there are plenty of "can't be bothered" or "there's a difference?" type of responses), it comes down to typography for epub choice or the extra functions for kepubs. The latter group include people who ask "What are ligatures?"
As to future developments for RMSDK vs ACCESS (or whatever it is called now), I don't really agree with your supposition. The RMSDK has been updated to include some of the things that ACCESS does. My understanding is that Adobe is putting the roadblocks up for updating to version 11. And the updates for ACCESS are very slow. The typography changes seem to have hit a point and are not going beyond that.
As to keeping the RMSDK for Overdrive, that's wrong. Kobo's support for Overdrive is through their store. If you borrow a book and download it, the book is a kepub with Kobo's DRM. The RMSDK is not get involved at all. The RMSDK will be used for sideloaded epubs or PDFs that have DRM. That gives them the ability to support books bought from any store that sells epubs with DRM.
And no matter what the future brings, it makes no real difference on what is happening now. You can always change later when there are improvements in the other renderer. Or choose whichever is better for each book you are reading.