Desktop App Kobo Desktop discontinued?

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by graycyn

The thing that gripes me is why can't they give us a toggle and let us choose the kepub renderer for epub3 on our devices?

For whatever reason, Kobo decided to rely on the extra Kobo spans in the WebKit renderer for position management, so that isn't possible. You can simply rename your book to book.kepub.epub, and it will load in the WebKit engine, but things like bookmarks and highlights won't work, because your book is missing the extra Kobo spans. I just run all my books through kepubify before I transfer them to remedy this.

[DNSB]

The Android and iOS apps are different critters from the ereader app (and from each other). One item to remember is that the spans are used for locating notes/annotations. If you simply rename an ePub to .kepub.epub, you will get the same zoom, etc. but you will lose annotations/notes.

Sideloaded EPUBs with the ".fxl.kepub.epub" or ".kepub.epub" will disable bookmarking and note keeping. Thumbnails for covers may not display. Otherwise the reading experience and content display will be identical to how the file would display when loaded through the store. Leaving the extension as ".epub" will enable bookmarking and note keeping and will trigger the ADE display engine.