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Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

Hacker News · Jun 14, 2026, 10:54 PM

Key takeaways

  • People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools.
  • I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), and yet, my disdain of Adobe just reached a completely new level.
  • As always I gave readers direct access to DRM-free EPUB files, which go through a gauntlet of processes until they pass all epubcheck err checks.

People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools.

I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), and yet, my disdain of Adobe just reached a completely new level.

A while back I published a new book. As always I gave readers direct access to DRM-free EPUB files, which go through a gauntlet of processes until they pass all epubcheck err checks.

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