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Originally Posted by Asawi
I have a mix of kepub and epub on my Kobo and I'm struggling to figure out the difference. I see others have mentioned the typography, but I don't quite get it. Doesn't kepub offer the same options regarding size, line space, margins, weight as epub? Or do they "just" render things differently (I guess rendering is what opened the Pocketbook discussion...)
I'm sorry if I'm really stupid now, but I seem to be able to do what I want with the kepub I tried just now. I actually (surprisingly!) do most of my reading on the Tolino at the moment so maybe I just haven't paid enough attention to what things look like at the Kobo, and until recently I only had epubs on it.
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The difference in layout and typography is that kepub doesn't do kerning and ligatures (unless you enable it in the configuration file) and word spacing is much worse than with epubs (the smaller the screen, the worse it is; there is a patch to improve it, but on anything smaller than 8" epub does word spacing better even with the patch).
Personally I couldn't care less about kerning and ligatures. I do care about word spacing, but I can live with the kepub word spacing on a 8" Sage. On a 7" Libra I prefer epub.