In fact, depending on the software you use, the conversion can take nearly no time at all. Still, at least Kobo doesn’t make it hard to convert standard EPUBs to the KEPUB format to make use of these added functions. I’m a little suspicious of that kind of “embrace and extend” maneuver, given how often it’s been used by firms like Microsoft to pull standardized formats away from the standards. I could see needing some kind of added framework to support deriving the reading statistics, but it would seem like paging through a book quickly, or opening an image in a viewer, ought to be things that don’t require extending a standardized format by adding your own proprietary functions. I’m not entirely sure why it wasn’t possible for Kobo to enable these functions with regular EPUBs. I gather there are a few other added functions as well, having to do with footnote previews or the header and footer display, but those were the biggest ones that were immediately apparent to me. Again, that’s not something it will do for regular EPUBs. Third, KEPUB provides access to Kobo’s built-in image viewer, which lets you zoom or rotate the cover image or any other image embedded within the book. There is also a bar graph showing the length of chapters relative to each other, which is interesting if not terribly useful. Tapping it brings you to a window showing how far along you are in the chapter, how many minutes of reading time you have left in the chapter at your current speed, and how much time is left in the current book. On a KEPUB book, you’ll see an extra icon in the row of icons along the bottom of the screen when you tap it to bring up the overlay. Second, KEPUB books support Kobo’s expanded reading statistics pop-up.
(On readers with physical buttons, such as the Forma, you can also hold down the page-up or page-down buttons for the same effect.) It won’t do this with regular EPUB files. On Kobo readers such as the Clara or Forma, you can hold your finger down on the lower right or lower left corner of the screen, and the reader will start flipping through pages rapidly. There are three major differences I’ve noticed between KEPUB and EPUB ebooks.įirst, KEPUB books support Kobo’s “fast flip” function. In this post, I’ll go over the differences between the formats from a reader’s point of view, and discuss the easiest way I’ve found to do bulk conversions from DRM-free EPUB to KEPUB. But, as I’ve noted before, they also support Kobo’s own extended version of the EPUB format, called KEPUB-used for the books Kobo sells from the store, or for DRM-free EPUBs that readers convert and sideload themselves. They’re great readers for reading anything in EPUB format. Note that you will have to resize it once after updating to 6.6.1, after which the size will be remembered.I’ve got two Kobo e-readers now, the Clara and Forma, that Kobo sent me to try out and review. Version 6.6.1 fixes a regression that caused the Edit metadata window to not remember its last used size.Edit book: File list: Fix pressing Tab key while renaming a file not starting the rename of the next file.Workaround for Amazon's email delivery service not reading metadata from inside ebook files.Font subsetting: Fix :first-line and :first-letter pseudo classes not being handled correctly.Content server: Fix jumping to locations such as bookmarks not working on iPhone/iPad running iOS >= 15.Edit book: Fix an error when processing books that contain comments inside unknown CSS rules.EPUB Output: Fix converting a document with obfuscated fonts to EPUB 3 not working.Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books, allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document).Then, when searching the Tag browser, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to restrict the displayed books. To use enable the two Preferences: "Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hide empty categories" and "Find shows all items that match".Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details.Content server for online access to your book collection.Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form.It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:
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