Thread: So... is the new firmware update worth it?
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Old 03-19-2010, 12:56 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by tmclough View Post
CoolReader 2 can't read epub files. An .epub.fb2 file is, in simplified terms, an epub file disguised as an fb2 file. In other words, it's an fb2 file on the outside (the filename has a .fb2 extension); but it's still an epub file on the inside (the syntax, etc.).
I agree. Another way of looking at this is that the .epub.fb2 renaming is so that the device passes the file to CoolReader for processing. At that point CoolReader strips off the .fb2 and looks at .epub. CoolReader 3 can read it, but CoolReader 2 can't.
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