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Old 07-12-2018, 08:59 PM   #16
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For side loading ebooks on a Kobo, and using Calibre, do you convert to kepub? I saw that you only get reading stats with kepub, but you also get the book title at the top which takes up some valuable real estate. The latest firmware also has an ePub error at the top of the screen.

Pluses and minuses of each appreciated, and do you have a preference on which file type you use?
You can see the same Stats with ePub. I Not see a Book title on top of the page in the 3000+ ebooks I have & read. Where ever you got this information its Wrong.
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Old 07-12-2018, 10:01 PM   #17
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You can see the same Stats with ePub. I Not see a Book title on top of the page in the 3000+ ebooks I have & read. Where ever you got this information its Wrong.
There are two sets stats. One is the reading stats displayed by selecting "Activity" from the main menu. For a book, this shows how much time was spend reading the book, average session length, the pages per minute and an estimate of the time left for the book. These are available for all books. And strictly, they are available for only for the book currently being read.

The other is the in-book stats displayed for kepubs. This shows the time left for the current chapter, the expected time for the next chapter, the time to finish the book and a graph of the lengths of each chapter in the book with an indication of where you are in the book. And it is accessible without closing the book.

I am pretty sure that the in-book stats is what @Derf is referring to, but might not realise that the other set of stats are available for all book formats.
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Old 07-13-2018, 12:03 AM   #18
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I read exclusively KePub for the in book stats and the chapter page number count. I don't mind the large header--although I wouldn't miss it. The typesetting for KePubs is fine for me--it's been so long since I've read an ePub on any of my Kobos that I don't have any idea what the difference is.
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Old 07-13-2018, 12:22 AM   #19
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There are two sets stats. One is the reading stats displayed by selecting "Activity" from the main menu. For a book, this shows how much time was spend reading the book, average session length, the pages per minute and an estimate of the time left for the book. These are available for all books. And strictly, they are available for only for the book currently being read.

The other is the in-book stats displayed for kepubs. This shows the time left for the current chapter, the expected time for the next chapter, the time to finish the book and a graph of the lengths of each chapter in the book with an indication of where you are in the book. And it is accessible without closing the book.

I am pretty sure that the in-book stats is what @Derf is referring to, but might not realise that the other set of stats are available for all book formats.
I get ALL that on my ePub.
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Old 07-13-2018, 12:50 AM   #20
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I get ALL that on my ePub.
No you don't. If you are getting in-book stats, then you are not reading epubs. You are reading kepubs. The in-book stats are only available for kepubs. And if you aren't seeing a title on each page, then you have patched the firmware to hide it.

If what you are doing is storing epubs in calibre and sending them to the device using the KoboTouchExtended driver, then what you are reading on the device is a kepub. Generating a kepub during the send is the purpose of the driver.
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Old 07-13-2018, 12:59 AM   #21
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Unfortunately, Adobe appears to have abandoned their own renderer in favor of readium (for epub3 and beyond), so I doubt there will ever be new features and bug fixes to the 'legacy' renderer, as used by Kobo (and Sony, and Nook, and...).
This is news to me! Where can I...er...read more about this?
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Old 07-13-2018, 01:17 AM   #22
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EPUB only for me. I have once sent a book to the device as Kepub from Calibre by accident and my reward was that the first letter of each chapter (which had some form of a dropcap CSS on it) has disappeared. Haven't tried the Kepub since.
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Old 07-13-2018, 01:34 AM   #23
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Old 07-13-2018, 01:58 AM   #24
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I just sent a book as an epub to check about typography. I didn't see that much difference (it had no smallcaps), but at least in the few pages I looked through, the hyphenation was worse on the epub: "whatsoe-" and "ver" on the next line.

And I much prefer to have header and footer, and to be able to choose between number of pages per chapter or for whole book - particularly important when reading complete works, or compilation of short stories by different authors, and the graph or the chapters read and to read.

Also I read many books with notes, maps, graphs.

So all in all kepubs for me all the way
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Old 07-13-2018, 06:08 AM   #25
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This is news to me! Where can I...er...read more about this?
Let's just say, that RMSDK 11 was released in 2014. According to the changelogs by Datalogics here, the main new feature of RMSDK 11 was integration of Readium for better epub 3 support. There appeared to be no new updates to the existing epub 2 renderer since version 10.

It is now 2018. The latest version is still 11. Adobe's ebook blog appears to have no posts after 2015. I have seen little evidence that Adobe has any plans of further developing RMSDK.
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Old 07-13-2018, 10:11 AM   #26
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I prefer kepub, for all the reasons already mentioned. Personally, I like the pages to go in the chapter information, either displayed or available with one tap.
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Kepub for me. I like the time-remaining-in-this-chapter feature and popup footnotes, as well as the ability to zoom images.
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Old 07-13-2018, 11:07 AM   #28
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I just use epub on the clara so far.
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Old 07-13-2018, 11:18 AM   #29
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My limited experience with epub on Kobo is that it is terrible.

Why do people not care about the gigantic footer at the bottom? The white space at the bottom is at least a full quarter of the screen. It looks awful.

Why can't I adjust line spacing on epub? A solid block of text is not aesthetically pleasing.

The only thing I don't like about kepub is the silly header.
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My limited experience with epub on Kobo is that it is terrible.

Why do people not care about the gigantic footer at the bottom? The white space at the bottom is at least a full quarter of the screen. It looks awful.

Why can't I adjust line spacing on epub? A solid block of text is not aesthetically pleasing.

The only thing I don't like about kepub is the silly header.
i'm with you completely

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