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Originally Posted by bopuc
Thank you @Quoth. Searching around and it appears so.
Too bad The Knowledge is seemingly scattered across a million posts :\
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You could load both epub and kepub on your Kobo and decide which you like better. The main pros and cons are:
-- Epubs have better typography, particularly word spacing. Ligatures and kerning are enabled for epubs by default, for kepubs they can be enabled in the configuration file, if you care about such things. There is a patch for improving word spacing in kepubs.
-- Images can be zoomed in kepubs, but not in epubs. Nothing can be done about that, as far as I know.
-- Epubs honor widows and orphans specified in the book css, which can result in large gaps at the bottom of the page. There are ways around that (by setting the widows/orphans to 1 in the css and adding a couple of lines to the Kobo conf file).
-- the epub renderer uses Adobe page numbers. The kepub renderer uses 1 screen=1 page; this means that if you change your font size, margins, line spacing et al, the overall page count will change as well. With epubs the overall page count remains always the same.