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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
Do you have an opinion on the text quality between the two? I was reading the Standard E-Books website, and it claims that the public domain e-books there will look significantly better on Kobo devices if you use KEPUB compared to EPUB, because the ADE renderer is bad.
I've been reading most of my books as EPUB with one KEPUB I bought from Kobo, and I didn't notice any difference between the two formats, other than the page renumbering and reading statistics options that KEPUB offers. I'm not entirely sure what supposed deficiency exists in the ADE renderer, as it seems fine to me.
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The epub renderer is slower, but the layout is better, especially word spacing. The latter is particularly noticeable when you disable hyphenation in your books, as I do. There is a patch that somewhat improves word spacing in kepubs.
The font size between epub and kepub renderer is different, unless you use a patch to fix that.
Also, epubs on a Kobo tend to have larger empty spaces on top and bottom than kepubs. Again, this can be fixed with patches and by editing the widows/orphans setting in both the Kobo conf file and the book css.
As to kepubs having issues with text indents, I don't know about that, because I edit the css in my books, including indents.
I use kepubs on my Sage because I like how fast everything is, and the layout is better on a larger screen. On the Libra I read mostly epubs. The books themselves are the same on both, only the format differs, so I can switch between the two whenever I like.