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Originally Posted by Inquisitive_Ram
Out of interest, if you download a book from kobo as ASCM and then import into calibre it shows as an epub. But is that an epub or is it really a kepub?
If by default you have the kobo extended touch driver on to convert your epubs to kepubs when you sideload to kobo, and then you tried to side load THAT book to a kobo, would it not work because you are trying to turn what is a kepub already into another kepub?
This is all hypothetical because if you were to have a kobo and bought a book from the kobo store there would be no lead to download as an ASCM and sideload.
I'm just wondering
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If you download a book from Kobo whether it is a DRMmed file which will deliver the .acsm file which is used to download the actual ePub (ADE, calibre with the ACSM plugin, etc.) or a non-DRMmed ePub which just downloads the ePub Almost all(
*) the downloaded ePubs will be standard ePubs without the extra spans, etc. found in kepubs. OTOH, the spans, etc. in a kepub are null ops to most ereaders and will have no effect on reading.
The only books that Kobo does not offer a download for are books obtained from the Kobo Plus program where you need a Kobo device/app to read so they can track the reading time to pay the author or library loans since having the loan time is kinda necessary for library books.
I download books from Kobo to place them in my calibre library and I also create placeholder entries for library, Kobo Plus, etc. loans. This helps when you either looking at purchasing or borrowing a book and calibre tells you that you purchased/borrowed it 5 years ago.
Not certain about the KTE driver but kepubify will not add the spans, etc. if they are already present and I think KTE does the same. Personally, I prefer using RMSDK since it has better font handling but chacun à son goût.
* Oddly, some authors are sending their books to Kobo already in .kepub.epub format hence the almost all.
If you want to get into any further discussion, let's move to a new thread in the Kobo forum.