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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Kepubs are displayed with both a top menu and a bottom menu, with epubs only the bottom menu is displayed, therefore you get more lines on the screen with epub. Also you can make your own formatting changes to epub, e.g., to reduce the line-height below the 1.3em minimum that the slider uses.
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The other advantage of kepub, IMHO, is that it gives you the reading stats. So when you tap the screen at the bottom, you will see something like "x% read", with a down-pointing arrow. When you tap the arrow, it brings up the reading stats for that book, i.e., how long you have remaining in the current chapter (hours and/or minutes), how long the next chapter is (hours and/or minutes), and estimated time remaining for the whole book, a graphical display of chapters (in a bar graph format), showing chapters read and chapters to be read and their size.
It's not 100% perfect in its estimates, but its a good indicator. The sideloaded epub will not give you this information.
Additionally, you must use a Calibre plugin to have a sideloaded epub converted to kepub if that's your preference. Otherwise, the only way to get kepubs is directly from Kobo.