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I have a Kobo Nia, and have used Calibre to sync about 100 EPubs onto the Nia, a workflow that works amazingly well (Calibre really is wonderful!).
I saw this great tool: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ which does super fast conversion of EPubs to Kepubs. I do NOT want to convert the original EPubs on my desktop machine, but want to convert the EPubs on the Nia. I have tried to use Code:
kepubify --update --inplace 'MyBook.epub'
And finally, a massive thank you to Patrick Gaskin for this tool, and also NickelMenu and the patching system, it is all very cool!!! |
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If you look in the library view, you'll see EPUB or KOBO EPUB. When reading, if you tap the middle of the screen, you'll notice a bar graph looking icon between the As and gear wheel icons. If you tap on an image, you'll get the 4 headed arrow to allow zooming, rotating, etc. the image. I've found that to be of little use since very few images in commercial ebooks have the resolution to make it worth zooming the image. I also prefer the RMSDK's font handling but that is likely only of interest to my fellow typography geeks. The basic change in kepubs are not visible in other renderers so you would see no difference in how KOReader rendered the ebook.[/LIST] Last edited by DNSB; 02-22-2022 at 11:55 PM. |
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If you add the KoboTouchExtended plug-in to Calibre, when you send books to the Nia, it will convert them from ePub to kepub as it transfers them. So you will have epub in your Calibre library, but will have kepub on your Nia.
This won't work for books you have already sent, though you can delete them from the Nia and send them again. |
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Many thanks to both of you for your helpful and informative responses!
@DNSB — I would certainly consider myself part of typography geekdom; I have installed my favorite book font, Dolly Pro from the Underware Type foundry, which works quite well on the Nia's screen. There are many things I still don't quite understand: (1) What advantages does the EPub render offer typographically? (2) On my desktop I tend to stick to OTF, but is there any disadvantage to OTF on device? (3) Standard ligatures are enabled as far as I can tell, but is there a mechanism to enable discretionary ligatures or other opentype features (I assume this has to be a patch of some sort)? Thanks again! |
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With Kobe ereader there are no ligatures for Kepub so I use Epub when there aren't images or notes. Otherwise I use Kepub. This is reason why with kepub I use fonts that fit good also without ligatures like Bitter, Lexia Dama or Roboto Serif. Or I read them with Koreader so I have great typography, the choice of sharpness of fonts, pop up notes and images enlargement (and many other features).
About otf fonts: if You use the patch "Enable advanced settings for all fonts" it works only with ttf font with Epub, it doesn't work with otf fonts. I don't know any way to have discretionary ligatures but using css: Code:
font-variant: discretionary-ligatures |
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Thanks to both of you. Understanding the trade-offs I think I'll generally stick to EPubs for the moment (I don't use any of the things kepubs are better for, so it is only a general performance improvement that I can apply selectively).
Given the possible downsides with patch support for OTF, I converted my OTF fonts to TTF (using https://github.com/shermp/ReadifyFont.git), merci! Thanks for the feedback and knowledge shared! |
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