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Never had issues with Kobo devices and Calibre. Is there any advantage to converting books to KEPUB format?

by neor 1y ago

cassianoleal 1y ago
There’s some extra stats when you open the book on the device. I _think_ that’s pretty much it though. AFAIK KEPUB is just ePub with bits of added metadata.
mariusor 1y ago
I think that for some reason they use different renderers, and the kepub one consumes less battery.
inatreecrown2 1y ago
I think you can get more format options with kepub, also page numbers are more accurate?
wiredfool 1y ago
Some ebooks that have extremely long chapters have very slow page turning performance towards the end of the chapter. (e.g. most of the Terry Pratchett Discworlds that are essentially one large chapter) There's probably an O(n^2) page break algo there which is fixed with the kepub format
latexr 1y ago
I’ve been converting to KEPUB[1] for years and two things I noticed immediately as I started doing so and still stick in my mind are more accurate page numbers and faster page-turning performance. Can’t really say anymore how much of a difference it is, since I always convert. [1]: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/
- shinycode 1y ago
  https://send.djazz.se https://send.djazz.se uses this under the hood and can be self hosted
9dev 1y ago
Footnotes open in popup windows over the current page instead of teleporting you to the end of the book, is one feature that I love.
windward 1y ago
The books I buy from the Kobo store always have the page numbers match up with the rendered pages. The books I... acquire through other means... do not.
Gareth321 1y ago
I haven't tested this yet but kepub imbeds progress data, which means this can probably be synced with Calibre. This is very nice for those of us which keep a larger library and change readers over time. Prior to this, we had to use a very janky workaround to sync this data. Most of us just didn't bother, so when moving books around, the progress data would reset.
Sverigevader 1y ago
It can make a huge difference in performance and batterylife, as well as how well images are rendered. I learned this by chance through this (great) site https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-faq https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f... This was after a year or two of suffering through bad performance and a janky experience. Except for the purchased books of course. Somehow I never thought it was possible to fix.

Never had issues with Kobo devices and Calibre. Is there any advantage to converting books to KEPUB format?

by neor 1y ago

Never had issues with Kobo devices and Calibre. Is there any advantage to converting books to KEPUB format?

There’s some extra stats when you open the book on the device. I _think_ that’s pretty much it though. AFAIK KEPUB is just ePub with bits of added metadata.

mariusor 1y ago

I think that for some reason they use different renderers, and the kepub one consumes less battery.

inatreecrown2 1y ago

I think you can get more format options with kepub, also page numbers are more accurate?

wiredfool 1y ago

Some ebooks that have extremely long chapters have very slow page turning performance towards the end of the chapter. (e.g. most of the Terry Pratchett Discworlds that are essentially one large chapter) There's probably an O(n^2) page break algo there which is fixed with the kepub format

latexr 1y ago

I’ve been converting to KEPUB[1] for years and two things I noticed immediately as I started doing so and still stick in my mind are more accurate page numbers and faster page-turning performance. Can’t really say anymore how much of a difference it is, since I always convert. [1]: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

shinycode 1y ago
https://send.djazz.se https://send.djazz.se uses this under the hood and can be self hosted

9dev 1y ago

Footnotes open in popup windows over the current page instead of teleporting you to the end of the book, is one feature that I love.

windward 1y ago

The books I buy from the Kobo store always have the page numbers match up with the rendered pages. The books I... acquire through other means... do not.

Gareth321 1y ago

I haven't tested this yet but kepub imbeds progress data, which means this can probably be synced with Calibre. This is very nice for those of us which keep a larger library and change readers over time. Prior to this, we had to use a very janky workaround to sync this data. Most of us just didn't bother, so when moving books around, the progress data would reset.

Sverigevader 1y ago

It can make a huge difference in performance and batterylife, as well as how well images are rendered. I learned this by chance through this (great) site https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-faq https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f... This was after a year or two of suffering through bad performance and a janky experience. Except for the purchased books of course. Somehow I never thought it was possible to fix.