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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Well for starters, Kobo's ePub renderer doesn't properly support right to left Japanese vertical writing. So maybe they're trying to avoid customers using ADE and having a bad experience on their devices?
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The original ePub3 renderer used by Kobo in their ereaders was the ACCESS NetFront BookReader v1.0 EPUB Edition which was added to allow the use of complex layouts and Japanese typography including furigana when the Kobo ereaders were officially sold in Japan. The oldest Kobo device that received this as part of an update was the Kobo 905 Touch ereader. The Kobo and Kobo WiFi simply did not have the space, RAM and CPU power to be able to use that renderer.