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Old 11-09-2025, 07:18 PM   #321
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It's odd. Why should the kepub renderer need the extra spans for the notes to work?
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It's always been that way. My guess is to keep people buying eBooks from Kobo if they want to use the KePub renderer.
The spans are used for location information for the notes and bookmarks within the ePub book when using the kepub renderer. It simplifies managing the location information and allows highlighting and taking notes across page boundaries.

As for guessing this is to limit people to purchasing books from Kobo? Considering that various tools to add the spans to ePub ebooks have been available very shortly after Kobo back in 2012 started using the ACCESS NetFront BookReader v1.0 EPUB Edition to allow handling Japanese typography and ePub3, purchasing an ebook from almost anywhere and converting it to an ePub with the Kobo spans is pretty trivial. Heck, calibre even has that capability built in to the KoboTouch driver now.
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