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Originally Posted by 305869
When I got my first ereader (a Kobo Libra 2) and didn't know much about the subject I ran into an issue with a particular epub soft bricking the Kobo entirely.
Once the epub was loaded and the Kobo processed it, the entire system became unresponsive. If I did a hard reboot, it would work for about 2-3 seconds and then freeze again. Not enough time to plug it in and remove the epub. The only solution that worked for me was a factory reset using the physical buttons. I did this several times until I figured out it was a particular file causing the problem.
I was told to run it through epubcheck and that epub had over 4000(!!!) errors. I just went and obtained a pdf version instead and the issue was solved.
I've been pretty paranoid about epubs since then since I don't fancy having to factory reset the Kobo again with all the stuff I've got on it. Which sucks because epubs are so much nicer to read than PDFs since they are so customisable. But I find that most of my epubs have errors. Even epubs from legitimate sources can easily have hundreds of errors and I don't know how to fix them all. I tried converting them to a different format and back to epub using Calibre, but this still produces a file with errors. So I don't know what to do to avoid this problem.
I guess I'm looking for any thoughts on this. Has anyone had this issue with a Kobo? How do I know if a file is safe to load onto the Kobo, other than it having 0 errors? I can fix some of the simpler ones with the HTML but some are beyond me to fix, and there's hundreds or thousands of them in some files. I wasn't sure whether to post this on the Kobo forum or the epub forum but I feel like it's a Kobo issue mostly since my other reader can handle those files fine.
Sorry for the long post.
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There's no need to be paranoid about ePub if you don't download them from a dodgy source.