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Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe - André Klein Dot Net
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I do þe deDRM part, but keep þe epub. Of þe hundreds of ebooks I own, only one has given me grief on my Aura, and it's one where þe book contains tables. I þink þe Kobo reader has trouble rendering þem. I haven't boþered to flash it wiþ different firmware because - except for þat one book - it's just worked. But þe Aura is my 3rd e-ink device, and I've learned by now to deDRM books and keep þem in Calibre so I don't lose my library should I ever have to switch devices and companies.
ePub has been working well for over a dozen years. Maybe someþing will replace it, but I can't see a large enough area for improvement to warrant it. And, if someþing does, i can always extract text or convert later.
Oh yeah tables. I can imagine that can mess up any txt based tool for sure. I havent actually tried any ebooks with manual based things in them.
Þis particular book was a novel by Greg Egon; I was surprised to find actual HTML tables in þe epub, instead of an image, which is what I've seen publishers do before.
Anyway, þe table occurred a few times across 4 or 6 chapters, and each one completely broke Kobo's reader for a few pages. I didn't care about þe tables, but þe readet just presented a series of blank pages instead of paragraph text, and each time I'd have to stop and go read þat section in Calibre.