Thread: Epubs with errors soft-bricking my Kobo
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Old 05-21-2023, 04:59 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Karellen View Post
It's a pretty naive viewpoint, and its a bit like saying "I once had a flat tyre in my car, so I never want to use a car again..." but I understand you may be out of your depth with epubs or ebooks in general.

I, and many other members here, use epubs exclusively. Yes, most of us have encountered the problem epubs. The problems are not because they are epubs, but because the "idiots" that created or converted the books have a poor understanding of what they are doing. All they really know is how to press a button or two without an understanding of what the process involves. That's when you need to be a bit smarter than them and know how to fix their mistakes.

If you want to put a bit of effort into learning about epubs, you will find that pretty soon, you can fix all those errors "with your eyes closed". Maybe start with this site... https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.7.0/1-code-style to learn the basics.

But with such vague info, nobody will really be able to help you. So post some of the error messages and lets see what they are.
Thank you for the link. It's a pretty big deal to me because I had just manually imported my library which is pretty big and tagged everything inside the Kobo which took a couple hours when it happened. So it's a bit more annoying than fixing a flat tire. By the end I was using Calibre to do it so I didn't have to redo it every time it happened but I hate the folder structure that it stores them in so I'd rather not.

I can fix some HTML errors manually, but probably not 4000 of them or even 100. It sounds like a lot of work. I'll definitely post some errors if I attempt fixing some of them and need help, thanks.

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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives View Post
Where are you getting your books? I've bought books from Kobo and gotten free books from Standard E-Books, Project Gutenberg, and my local library, and I've never had a problem with a book crashing my device in this manner.
I think the particular epub file that caused this issue was a free book downloaded from archive.org. I deleted it back when this happened after finding a pdf version
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