Best format for Libra 2

TheSmitty · 07-15-2022, 04:35 PM

If I were to buy a new Libra 2 which ebook format (Epub, etc) would be best to use when transferring my Amazon books I have in Calibre onto it?

JSWolf · 07-15-2022, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSmitty

If I were to buy a new Libra 2 which ebook format (Epub, etc) would be best to use when transferring my Amazon books I have in Calibre onto it?

That depends on a number of things. But I suggest you try both ePub and KePub and see which you prefer.

Are you going to apply patches to the firmware? That makes a difference to how KePub looks. One of the patches fixed the font size so they match in ePub & KePub.

TheSmitty · 07-15-2022, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

That depends on a number of things. But I suggest you try both ePub and KePub and see which you prefer.

Are you going to apply patches to the firmware? That makes a difference to how KePub looks. One of the patches fixed the font size so they match in ePub & KePub.

I was not planning on patching the firmware.

JSWolf · 07-15-2022, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSmitty

I was not planning on patching the firmware.

Without patching, I'd go with ePub except for certain circumstances such as footnotes and/or images you may want to zoom in on.

TheSmitty · 07-15-2022, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Without patching, I'd go with ePub except for certain circumstances such as footnotes and/or images you may want to zoom in on.

Thanks for the info

JSWolf · 07-15-2022, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSmitty

Thanks for the info

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davidfor · 07-16-2022, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSmitty

If I were to buy a new Libra 2 which ebook format (Epub, etc) would be best to use when transferring my Amazon books I have in Calibre onto it?

Why not simply try both epubs and kepubs and see? Putting either format on the device with calibre is simple.

As to the idea that you must patch to make kepubs look good, that is a load of BS. Personally, I use both formats for different books, and have to look twice to work out which it is. And I have no patches at all.

JSWolf · 07-16-2022, 04:17 AM

One patch that really works well is the patch to reduce the spacing between the words in KePub. KePub (IMHO) by default has too much space between words.

Sirtel · 07-16-2022, 04:39 AM

Personally I couldn't read either format without patching. Neither of them looks good out of the box IMO. But that's just fussy me, obviously YMMV. I'd also suggest to try both before deciding.

I prefer epubs on the Libra and kepubs on the Sage, but both devices are heavily patched.

Barty · 07-16-2022, 10:31 PM

Nickel just has too much spacing out of the box. It's ridiculous

TheSmitty · 07-16-2022, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Sirtel

Personally I couldn't read either format without patching. Neither of them looks good out of the box IMO. But that's just fussy me, obviously YMMV. I'd also suggest to try both before deciding.

I prefer epubs on the Libra and kepubs on the Sage, but both devices are heavily patched.

Which patching do you mean?

Sirtel · 07-17-2022, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSmitty

Which patching do you mean?

Multiple. Custom font sizes, custom line height, reduce word spacing, reduce top/bottom margins and so on. And I set widows/orphans to 1 in the config file, else many epubs tended to have large empty spaces at the bottom of the page.

ZodWallop · 07-17-2022, 02:35 AM

What format are your books in Calibre? Are they .mobi and .azw or have you converted them already?

Within Calibre, I'd say keep them all as .epub. You can use Kobo Touch Extended to convert the books to .kepub as they are being sent to the Kobo if you decide to use that format.

TheSmitty · 07-17-2022, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ZodWallop

What format are your books in Calibre? Are they .mobi and .azw or have you converted them already?

Within Calibre, I'd say keep them all as .epub. You can use Kobo Touch Extended to convert the books to .kepub as they are being sent to the Kobo if you decide to use that format.

They are in epib format in calibe

Pajamaman · 07-17-2022, 03:01 PM

What are the benefits of patching for epubs? The epubs on a non-patched libra 2 look okay to me.

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