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Kobo Forma Calibre Plug-Ins
I am moving from an Oasis 2 to a Forma and will be using Calibre to load Amazon purchased books on the Forma.
I viewed the Plug-In Index and was completely overwhelmed by the amount of content. What are the Kobo Forma specific Plug-Ins that you recommend I add to Calibre? I assume some of these Plug-Ins may have overlapping functions. If true which ones are preferred? Thanks, Joe |
05-21-2020, 11:34 PM | #2 |
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There are no Forma specific plugins. And see Purchased a new Kobo Libra H2O Reader what Calibre Plug-ins should I install for a recent discussion of the calibre plugins.
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05-21-2020, 11:43 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for the link!
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There are no Kobo Forma specific plugins. The KoboTouch driver comes with calibre and there is the KoboTouchExtended driver which allows on the fly conversion to kepub which can be added. Otherwise, the KoboUtilities plugin is pretty much the only other plugin that I consider a necessity.
That said, the other plugins I use are
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05-21-2020, 11:58 PM | #5 |
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David, thanks for the concise summary!
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Kepub is a spin on ePub Kobo came up with that does some different things than plain ePubs do. There are pluses and minuses to both. There's plenty of kepub vs. ePub threads here. I've just recently added Kobo Books as Kobo often does have higher resolution covers available. |
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What are the advantages of KindleUnpack? Is it just less prone to errors, or are there small things I might notice on every converted ePub? Same question for Modify ePub. I'm curious as I found ePubs on my Nook almost universally have nicer layout than kepubs on my Kobo*. But I'm assuming that has to do with the kepub layout engine rather than errors in the converted ePub. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong. (*I'm assuming ePubs on the Kobo would look as nice as ePubs on the Nook.) Last edited by ZodWallop; 05-22-2020 at 10:19 AM. |
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IMO Kobo could do everyone a favour by reviewing the algorithm it uses to add the koboSpans. The clumsy attempt at applying one-per-sentence just makes word spacing, and sometimes letter spacing, worse than it needs to be.
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Much the same. When I edit the book, I tend to leave unused spans as <span> and then strip the empty spans using ModifyEpub. Basically, ModifyEpub does everything that Polish does other than adding soft hyphens and adds more functions that I find useful such as removing inline javascript and files. Quote:
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Or Kobo could get the latest RMSDK and forget Access.
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