It's not just a matter
of kepub * or * epub.
Not exact matches
A lot
of software improvement: — option to switch off footers and headers in EPUB and
KEPUB files; — text rotation (landscape mode) in EPUBs; — automate hyphenation for non-English e-books; — PDF support (for reading not for displaying); — dictinaries other than English; — Send - to - Kobo wireless service for user's e-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.
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.
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.
While many kdrm - protected
kepub ebooks are also available for download as regular epubs with ubiquitous Adobe DRM, this is not always the case, restricting the use
of these ebooks to Kobo devices and reading applications.
A conversion
of ePub to
kepub will add the spans to the epubs.
It seemed to me Adobe, who is providing a lot
of the resellers including Kobo, didn't support EPUB 3 with DRM, which would mean that actually there is no way to support it, hence the «
kepub only».
This is what it looks like if you make the mistake
of buying a
KePub ebook from Kobo (I got a refund by the way)
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.
Quality is already a big issue as ereading apps» developers and vendors must manage (CSS overrides,
KePub which was a radical solution for enhancing the overall quality
of the crappy files they had to sell, etc.) the unmanageable a.k.a HTML and CSS a web dev would die just looking at it since even basic HTML markup is not done properly, let's hope the devs they hire will do things well.
kepub and those go away OR there's a patch for the Kobo OS to get rid
of them with.