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Originally Posted by pholy
It should not be a malformed epub file, but it is possible.
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Most converted epubs are a mess, and don't conform to the epub specification.
I've had an epub that my Kobo Reader refused to read (didn't crash, but wouldn't display the book), though my desktop epub viewer handled it without concern.
I ran the file through an
epub validator, and fixed all of the errors by hand, after which the Kobo Reader would display the book correctly.
Admittedly, there was a major problem with this particular epub: all the html files contained a hash (#) in the filename, and given that the hash has a special meaning within URLs I'm not surprised the Kobo Reader choked when parsing the epub!
But my story does point to the unreliability of the conversion process, and the fact that certain epubs can mess with your ereader.