People more in the know about tech than I am are telling me that ePub3 * can * be downloaded and ultimately, the books which can't be downloaded are
KePub books.
In the meantime, there's a link in the ETA part of the above post which goes to The Digital Reader where you can find a link to Calibre plugin which works with the Kobo Desktop app to convert
kepub books into epub.
Not exact matches
It's the
kepub - only
books — the one without anything at all listed under Download Options — that are a problem.
The rapid page turn engine works with
KEPUB ebooks, which are
books you have purchased directly from Kobo.
It seems that Kobo has decided to sell epub3
books only as
kepubs, which makes a tiny bit of sense when you consider that the rendering engine used for
kepubs has a few epub3 capabilities, while the Adobe engine used for regular epubs has none.
kepub) tips also apply, of course, to Kindle as well but you'll need to convert the
book to.
It gets particularly weird when Kobo takes
books that are sold DRM - free by the publisher and slaps their
kepub - gunk on them, including DRM...
It seems the problem is both ePub3 and
KePub — ePub3
books can be downloaded — other etailers don't seem to be having the same problem.
If you have a Kobo ereader, use one of their reading apps or their Kobo desktop software to read the
books you purchase from them, then the format you're reading is the
kepub version.
The
kepub - only
books I've bought so far were declared to be epub3 in their content.opf file when I took them apart.
But I really wish that Kobo would list clearly on each
book's description page what type of file format it is in (epub -LRB-, Adobe DRM epub, pdf, or
kepub) instead of making me do this work around.
Note that a
kepub formatted
book needs the extension to be.