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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
It does, but Kobo is not required to provide all features for all book formats. If you read plain EPUB files, you don't get pop-up footnotes at all, for example. I guess you can blame Adobe for that, since Kobo didn't make RMSDK.
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I am not only talking about pop-ups here because I am not particularly keen on them anyways. But there are things not working correctly in epubs and then you change the file extension to kepubs and other things are broken.
• Every app and even an .epub file renamed to .kepub.epub on the KOBO device itself can correctly display e.g. an arrow pointing up.
The .epub version on the device can’t !!! It is replaced by a blank space.
Some other arrow symbols get replaced by a boxed space in the .kepub, every other app displays them correctly.
• If you tap straight on the center of a numbered footnote link in an .epub file you get nothing. You have to horizontally tap slightly to the left of the number to hit a tap zone that eventually triggers the link.
In the .kepub version a tap in the center of the numbered link works for the forward link, however if you have 5 subsequent lines of numbered backlinks at the end of a chapter where every line contains a link (there are no interleaved lines without a link) then good luck with hitting the right vertical link position. Every tap beneath the vertical center of the numbered backlink brings you to the link of the next line. Only tapping above the center of the numbers triggers the correct link. So the hit zones of the links are essentially shifted vertically by give or take half a line.
But this is with relatively big font sizes only…
If you decrease your font size this behavior changes. Suddenly complete lines get swallowed with regards to their tap zone because the link from the line above and beneath totally overlap the line in between and you can’t access some backlinks at all.
So neither the .epub format nor the .kepub format does deliver a consistent behavior.
And that is just plain ol’ simple ebooks, no fancy features…
What more can one say !!!
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