kepub: why does it exist?

[DenS]

I'd love to see a Kindle with the Kobo user interface and the same screen quality as the Kobo Libra 2. I see so much praise for the quality of this screen that I'm seriously considering buying one.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Claude_C

I'm eager to see what the new Kobos will look like.

I'd be eager to see a new Oasis, although I'm not likely to buy it. But I doubt now it will ever be released.

As to the new Kobos, if they're really color devices, I'm not particularly interested in that. Unless the hardware is spectacular improvement from the previous generation. Doubtful that will be the case.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Claude_C

I'm a cool 58 years old.

Sometimes, there's no need to debate with people who will never change their minds, me included.

If you buy a Kobo, you must patch it to hell and beyond so the ebooks can look a bit OK. Oh dear... What's to argue? Buy another ereader for God sake!

You buy a Kindle and KF8 has no hypehnation, no kerning, and no ligatures, wide L/R margins, and wide line height. KFX has wide L/R margins and wide line height.

Pocketbook while it has the latest RMSDK, the eBooks can look bad because of the formatting.

There's nothing good out of the box because the eBooks are rubbish and/or the software makes the eBooks look bad.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Other ereaders are even worse. At least I can patch my Kobo; with Kindles and Nooks I can do basically nothing (unless I jailbreak/root them) and would be frustrated forever.

And if you had a Pocketbook Reader, you'd still have to edit your eBooks.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DenS

I'd love to see a Kindle with the Kobo user interface and the same screen quality as the Kobo Libra 2. I see so much praise for the quality of this screen that I'm seriously considering buying one.

What do you mean, "a Kindle with the Kobo UI"? Would it not be a Kobo instead of a Kindle then? Or do you mean it should have the best features of both brands? I'm sure everyone would want that, but it's hardly likely such a wonder will ever happen.

[Karellen]

Whenever I read these types of posts, I can't help thinking how much of a basic user I must be with my ereader.

I have a Kobo and love it. There is nothing I want to change, though a "skip to next chapter" button would be handy.

I had a Kindle Gen 2 for about a decade, and while I could happily read on it, I always struggled with it. Couldn't sort my books the way I wanted them. Then Amazon brought in Sets/Collections to the Kindle, and half the books in the set were in the set, others weren't.

Sometimes I just don't "get" what everybody complains about.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

If you create your own books yourself, ok. Of course. I agree with you, but what with purchased ebooks? Even if they weren't locked up with ADE DRM...what you do, you revise xhtml of every single file?

@DNSB
Thank you for your appreciation of my english

I do revise 95%+ of the ebooks that I purchase. All of them get the metadata and cover files updated. Most of the non-metadata changes I make are to the chapter files to set them to my rather boring but—to me—easy to read layout.

ADEPT DRM and Kindle DRM are removed when the books are imported to calibre and Obok can remove Kobo's DRM from Kobo purchases, that covers virtually all of my ebook purchases. One note that due to my personal stance on when removing DRM is permissible, I do not remove DRM from loans (library, Kobo Plus or Kindle Unlimited) since I have not purchased them.

Due to previous experiences where online bookstores shut down or online DRM servers (Microsoft's .LIT format for an example) were shut down and ebooks that I had purchased were now just expensive and useless collections of bits, I do not purchase ebooks where I am unable to remove the DRM.

I've been doing this for quite a few years and have a collection of saved searches that make it relatively easy to make the changes that I want with minimum work by me. I am very grateful to Strahinja Val Marković, John Schember, Kevin Hendricks and Doug Massay for the work they have done on the Sigil editor and Kovid Goyal, Charles Haley and many others for their work on calibre.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

Kobo has not a chance in a million to win its competition against kindle.

We're not asking Kobo to dethrone Kindle. That'll never happen. All we want is for Kobo to be successful enough to continue releasing new models and supporting its existing ones so that we don't have to be stuck in Amazon's walled garden.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Karellen

a "skip to next chapter" button would be handy.

You can do that in three taps, at least. Tap in the middle of the screen to open the menu, tap the >| button on the progress bar to jump to the next chapter, then tap the middle of the screen again to close the menu. I often do this to see how many pages I have left in a chapter, since I don't like having headers and footers taking up screen real estate all the time. (Of course, I use "back to page x" instead of actually jumping to the next chapter. )

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by repilo

Has Kobo ever updated their version of RMSDK?
Is there any chance they will?

I don't know if Kobo has ever updated their version of RMSDK. I doubt they will update RMSDK.

For reading most novels, RMSDK is perfectly OK unless it's a site as stupid as Standard Ebooks who like to use the latest and greatest and most complicated code for eBooks that have a very simple format.

Given that eBooks are being read with many different programs, they should be kept as simple as possible. For example, don't use pseudo classes when a span will do. Don't use test-transform: small-caps when a smaller font size will do. Yes, there may be things you cannot do to make the eBook fully backwards compatible, but when you can, do so.

If it's for your own use, go ahead an add in all the ePub 3 specific code you want as long as the software you are using supports it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jane Eyre

That maybe I bought a faulty or damaged product.
I don't know.

Sorry. I'm not sure to understand every single word of yours

I'm not so expert on mark up language, but... basically, this is my base scheme:

<h1>Chatpers</h1>

<p> </p>

<span> </span>

for Italic portion of text inside paraghraphs

<div class> </div>

for block elements, such as images.

Styles in stylesheets, of course.
Nothing more.

Times New Roman on a screen?? Oh god..nooooooo

My favourite fonts in Einks are: Bitter HT, Amazon Bookerly, and Caecilia.
That's all.

I've been doing some code cleaning with the Chronicles of St Mary's series by Jodi Taylor. Some the books are using Times and Perpetua which are two awful fonts. They even look bad on my laptop's LCD screen and my laptop screen is quite good.

My favorite font on Kobo and Kindle is CareInk6SP. It's based on Charis SIL and looks very good. You can get it from here for free and give it a try. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056

[Gone]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Whenever I read these types of posts, I can't help thinking how much of a basic user I must be with my ereader.

I have a Kobo and love it. There is nothing I want to change, though a "skip to next chapter" button would be handy.

I had a Kindle Gen 2 for about a decade, and while I could happily read on it, I always struggled with it. Couldn't sort my books the way I wanted them. Then Amazon brought in Sets/Collections to the Kindle, and half the books in the set were in the set, others weren't.

Sometimes I just don't "get" what everybody complains about.

Me neither.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Whenever I read these types of posts, I can't help thinking how much of a basic user I must be with my ereader.

I have a Kobo and love it. There is nothing I want to change, though a "skip to next chapter" button would be handy.

I had a Kindle Gen 2 for about a decade, and while I could happily read on it, I always struggled with it. Couldn't sort my books the way I wanted them. Then Amazon brought in Sets/Collections to the Kindle, and half the books in the set were in the set, others weren't.

Sometimes I just don't "get" what everybody complains about.

If you could use the Kindle 2 for a decade and felt no need to upgrade, then you must be one of the most undemanding ereader users in existence.

I read happily on lowest-end basic Kindles for a few years too, but not for a decade. Then I moved on and grew fussier with every new ereader I used.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

If you could use the Kindle 2 for a decade and felt no need to upgrade, then you must be one of the most undemanding ereader users in existence.

Yep, that is exactly what I am thinking.
Pick it up, switch it on, read, flip, read, flip....
What more is there?

I guess my book editing is too perfect. I'll need to add errors to have reason to complain.

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

You can do that in three taps, at least. Tap in the middle of the screen to open the menu, tap the >| button on the progress bar to jump to the next chapter, then tap the middle of the screen again to close the menu. I often do this to see how many pages I have left in a chapter, since I don't like having headers and footers taking up screen real estate all the time. (Of course, I use "back to page x" instead of actually jumping to the next chapter. )

Yep, I have seen that, but I invariably tap the wrong place and turn a page instead.

It would be great if I could just double-click the page turn button to jump to the previous or next chapter.