03-19-2024, 04:06 PM | #31 |
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I don't understand. Who or what does prevent Epub to be as performing as Kepub?
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03-19-2024, 04:14 PM | #32 | |
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It is what it is. Edit : It makes me think of the web and the way websites are built. Some swear by standards, others by Google Chrome (Blink). In the end, people want what works the best for them, while others will continue to stand by standards for philosophical reasons, even if their browser of choice doesn't work with all websites sometimes. But, hey, that's another story! Last edited by Gone; 03-19-2024 at 04:22 PM. |
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03-19-2024, 04:28 PM | #33 |
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Of course, but, ebooks are not precisely web pages..it is just plain text, no animations, no jQueries or Javascript... an ebook is some more easy and simple. It doesn't need much to work..really I don't undersand. Kindle has been the first, but standards are developed to make users' life easier. Companies should invest on standard formats instead of feathering their own nest with their closed formats...
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Why don't they? The hundred thousand millions dollars question. Edit : That said, often the people behind building standards often have a tunnel vision of what should be a standard. I think of the days I was in Linux, lots of discussions often heading nowhere. So devs would just make a fork. Last edited by Gone; 03-19-2024 at 05:21 PM. |
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03-19-2024, 04:44 PM | #35 |
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Epub is an open standard. However, if someone like Kobo sells an epub, the publisher often insists on DRM. DRM is not a single open standard:
Adobe has most of the epub DRM market (and charges the bookseller to use it). Amazon has a separate DRM for its books. I suppose that Amazon could apply its DRM to epubs but there isn't any reason for them to do so (from their point of view). (Actually, most Amazon ebooks these days are fairly similar to epubs, I gather) The various DRM regimes each require a reader than can decode that DRM. The Amazon Kindles decode Amazon DRM but not Adobe (or Kobo kepub). The kepub reader can not decode either Amazon or Adobe but it can read the DRM Kobo applies to kepubs. Of course, the participants in this discussion usually strip DRM and so, for them, a epub is an epub, regardless of who sold it to them and--for them--multiple reader programs make little sense. |
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I always use KEPUB mostly for the rapid page turn feature. The image viewer is also handy for nonfiction. It seemed to me that WebKit was a bit snappier than RMSDK, but it might have been my imagination. The stability seems better as well, especially when it comes to large books.
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IIRC only Calibre allows the .kepub extension. To use the file on your Kobo, .kepub.epub is required, so most KEPUB files should already have a valid extension for other reading systems.
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The only place a .kepub extension works is in the calibre library, neither calibre's ebook viewer nor ebook editor will open them. When the Kobo Touch driver is used, the file is renamed to .kepub.epub when transferred to the ereader. Last edited by DNSB; 03-20-2024 at 12:06 AM. |
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Kepubs also do some things better than epubs, so it's the matter of personal preference which format to use. |
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