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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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Thanks for the long and detailed response. I have indeed followed through on your advice to test each one and I seem to slightly prefer the way ePubs are rendered so I shall stick with that for now. I’ll have to manually resize maps in fantasy books cause unfortunately there’s no image zoom functionality with RMSDK but in general I find the text to be more pleasing with it so it’s worth the trade off in my opinion.
I have one last question for you if you don’t mind, would you recommend that I also download KoReader and Plato (and perhaps any other non-Nickel document viewers) and give them a try as well to see if any of them perhaps handle typesetting as well as RMSDK or is RMSDK just considered to have the best typesetting engine?
As you can probably tell, I’m very new to the eReader scene and all my knowledge comes from pretty much scrolling through these forums for a couple of hours so apologies if my questions seem strange or when answered at some point since most RMSDK vs ACCESS vs Others comparisons I found seem to be from around 2019 or 2020 and I assume they’ve all changed at least a little since then.
Thank you!