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Stinger · 05-12-2010, 02:09 AM

I'm curious.....
Did Kobo just change the stylesheet on all their epubs to be "Kobo compatible"? or did they change the syncing process to fix the epubs 'on-the-fly' as they are transferred over to the device? (Since there wasn't any desktop app update, I wouldn't expect it to be the latter, but with the way the desktop app works, it is possible).

I haven't purchased any books from the Kobo store yet after finding even the 'free' public domain books DRM-protected. So if someone has a backup copy of one of their books they can compare to a "fixed" one and see what was changed, I'd be interested to hear about it.

On a side note, its nice to see people getting responses about some of these bugs, instead of a generic "we are aware of this problem and are working to resolve the issue" bs emails... too bad all my questions thus far have only resulted in "We have escalated the following issue to our level 2 support and we will have an update via email shortly"

05-12-2010, 02:09 AM	#2
Stinger Asha'man Posts: 335 Karma: 844 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Device: Kobo	I'm curious..... Did Kobo just change the stylesheet on all their epubs to be "Kobo compatible"? or did they change the syncing process to fix the epubs 'on-the-fly' as they are transferred over to the device? (Since there wasn't any desktop app update, I wouldn't expect it to be the latter, but with the way the desktop app works, it is possible). I haven't purchased any books from the Kobo store yet after finding even the 'free' public domain books DRM-protected. So if someone has a backup copy of one of their books they can compare to a "fixed" one and see what was changed, I'd be interested to hear about it. On a side note, its nice to see people getting responses about some of these bugs, instead of a generic "we are aware of this problem and are working to resolve the issue" bs emails... too bad all my questions thus far have only resulted in "We have escalated the following issue to our level 2 support and we will have an update via email shortly" Last edited by Stinger; 05-12-2010 at 03:28 AM.