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Originally Posted by artificial
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. |
So I'm screwed.
Did I type that out loud?
I crashed the Kobo twice with epubs that I converted myself with Calibre, and after running the books through the validator (thanks for that), I've found loads of errors. But of course I have no clue of what they mean, nor how to fix them. I'll try converting the books to pdf, I can handle them a little better.
Thanks for this thread, everyone, I can now stop banging my head on the wall!
edit: marvelous pdf. Yay. Off to read now.