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Originally Posted by Lucas Malor
Another thing: do Kobo developers have taken into consideration to adopt Calibre? I think it's more simple to do a modified version of Calibre instead of maintaining a slow and less powerful software.
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Calibre does not comply to the IPDF epub standard, so Kobo has to stick to a rendering engine that does this. And those rending engines have their limitations, bugs etc.
Kobo can better ask their rendering engine supplier to support - unofficially or undocumented - some other CSS/HTML5 features that are really missed right now in epub 2 en 3pub (e.g. real small-caps).
It relatively easy to implement additional
official HTML5 features to the rendering engine. The engine supplier can inventarize under its customers which features should be added to improve the look and feel of digital reading.
But yes, Calibre can do things differently, do more and maybe even better.