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To buy this ePub 1.99 deal - Which store/ source would be better?

July 27, 2017, 6:47 am
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Which of these gives an ePub with / without DRM? I read on an ePub reader app on iOS - Marvin.

https://lifespa.com/3-season-diet-ebook-flash-sale/

Suggestions?

Quoting options below.. You can see actual link to see why I want a full color / hyper linked usable ePub

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Amazon - Kindle - Mobi only?? - Color / format conversion losses?

Barnes and Nobles

books a million button

indigo-chapters-buy-button

Kobo
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Breaking down a massive file

July 30, 2017, 2:06 pm
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Hi. I'm not sure where to post this so feel free to move me!
I created a document in Microsoft word that I then converted to ePub in Calibre. It's 56XX pages long and image heavy.
I now have two problems. First I accidentally deleted (shredded) the folder I was using for various page things including my source docx.
Second my file is too big for most readers, at 160MB.
iBooks crashes and Totalreader stalls for a long time (almost half an hour) on each load.
It displays fine on most of my PC apps so it's definitely a size or length problem.
I've tried converting the ePub back to docx and Microsoft Word can't load it, invalid file. Fact, Atlantis is the only WP that can load Calibre's docx. Resaving from AT doesn't help, still can't load in word.

SO: question is, is there an easy, direct, automated way to split my ePub into, say, 500 page chunks? (Not worried about where it splits at the moment I can fix sentence cutting and stuff manually). Like drag n drop type 500 click and walk away?
Or is there another text based format I could use to do this. PDF works and gives me a "valid" output but the formatting is messed up and I'm simply attempting to not have to rearrange and reformat more than 5000 pages.
Please, any help would be wonderful!
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Is there an option for Paragraph breaking between pages (might be wrong term for it)

July 30, 2017, 5:03 pm
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Okay, so one thing I would like to have is have the reader automatically detect when a paragraph will enter into the next page, so it always ends on the last complete sentence. Here's what I mean.

http://i.imgur.com/iCiFK3g.png
http://i.imgur.com/73pPmGz.png

What I want it to be like is this:

http://i.imgur.com/7lSdbtI.png
http://i.imgur.com/4VynjLT.png

I can understand this is impossible for books where the paragraphs are simply longer than the page screen size, but I would love to have it as an option. It just feels so much cleaner and I would improve my reading experience a lot.
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Entire book blank in EPUB

August 5, 2017, 12:03 pm
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After making some small text corrections to an existing reflowable EPUB3 today, I ran it through epubcheck 3.0b5 again to ensure there were no errors, and there weren’t. I have tested earlier versions of this EPUB on the same iPad Pro and have had no problems with the file.

This time, however, every page of the book was blank. Cover displayed fine. No error messages with line references were presented for troubleshooting. There was no nav toc to access, either, but the pages could be turned as if they had content.

I deleted the EPUB, rebooted the iPad Pro, reloaded the EPUB, and the result was the same.

I then loaded the same EPUB onto my iPhone. It displays and functions perfectly in iBooks (4.12)— same iOS (10.3.3).

I loaded it onto two other iPads, one with an older iOS and older version of iBooks, and one the same iOS 10.3.3. It displays and functions perfectly.

I transferred it via AirDrop and via e-mail. Didn’t make any difference.

I have to conclude that this is an issue with the iPad Pro, perhaps?

Also need to point out that the MOBI file that was converted from this EPUB displays and functions perfectly on a Kindle Fire HD.

I’m attaching it here in case anyone has any clues. It was originally a print book done in InDesign CS-something in 2004. Yes, I know there is some CSS that is unnecessary, but it’s a book of lists, and doesn’t take long to load anyway. I’m really most concerned about why it’s working everywhere BUT the iPad Pro when it did before.

Your guidance is greatly appreciated!

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File Type: epub 9781574634600_girsberger_perc2.epub (1.07 MB)
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Centered initial caps?

August 11, 2017, 11:12 pm
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Is there any way to create a centered initial cap that is 100% portable?

What I did to create the attached sample is based on knowing my reader width, reading font and size I read at, and picking a text-indent that works for most letters.
Code:
<p class="para-chapterFirst"><span class="text-dropcap">E</span>ntering</p>

.para-chapterFirst {
        text-indent: 47%;
        text-align: justify;
        margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}
.text-dropcap {
        font-size: 4.6em;
        font-weight: bold;
}
But, if somebody reads with larger/smaller window, a different base font, or changes the base font size up or down more than just a little, that throws of the "centering". Likewise, if I tweak the indent for perfect centering for individual letters, it still has the same issues.

I ran into the same sort of problems setting the initial cap in a separate paragraph and then using a negative margin-top on the next paragraph:
Code:
<p class="para-dropcap">E</p>
<p class="para-chapterFirst">ntering</p>

.para-dropcap {
        text-align: center;
        font-size: 4.6em;
        font-weight: bold;
}
.para-chapterFirst {
        text-indent: 55%;
        text-align: justify;
        margin-top: -1em;
        margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}
Now, it's the indent of the next paragraph that needs to be changed to make the spacing between the initial cap and the rest of the sentence correct. In this case, I could tweak for each different letter, but that still breaks if the text size changes.

Is there anything like a float that can be centered, allowing the rest of the opening sentence to end up where it belongs?

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Table-like block with dotted lines

August 15, 2017, 5:47 pm
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I'm putting together an epub where I need something that looks like the following--excluding the lines of dashes above and below the text:

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I. Dark and stormy night. (1)

****Dark ............................. 1 tsp. (2)
****Storm ........................... 16 oz.
****Rain ............................. 5 qts.
****Torrents ........................ 3

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in (3)
torrents except at occasional intervals, when it
was checked by a violent gust of wind which
swept up the streets…
----------------------------------------------------------

We have (1) a title… followed by (2) a block of lines that needs to be indented & roughly centered on the page… followed by (3) some text.

Regarding the block of lines (2):

[The text editor featured by this forum does not appear to support unbreakable spaces… when I preview this post they show up as stars. Please consider they are spaces. There should be a 10% or so margin on the left and right of this block. It should be centered relative to the following paragraph. (3)]

Let's say that if I this were a table there would be two columns… each of them with the text left-justified:

1 - in col. 1 the nature of the "ingredient" padded by dots on the right using up the remainder of the cell.

2 - in col. 2 the corresponding quantity of the ingredient in ounces, quarts, etc.

Obviously, these "tables" of ingredients all need to be the exact same width and their columns must be aligned with the columns in the previous and next "table"… otherwise the result will look rather terrible.

Now the problem is that there are some 700+ recipes in this book and a majority of them use the above presentation. So I need to settle on some kind of template before I get started.

I know that I could do this with Good Ol' html tables and get exactly what I want but apart from the fact that such tables are a nightmare to code and adjust, I have heard rumors that the powers that be are discouraging their use and may eventually look into phasing them out (?).

So far I have played with the new display: table… display: table-row… display: table-cell… CSS properties. This looked rather promising but so far I have not been all that successful to say the least. They appear to have a mind of their own and I always end up with blocks of different widths depending on the content of the cells… which does not look right especially when more than one list of ingredients shows up on a given page…

Besides I couldn't find a way to cause a vertically-aligned truncation of my lines of dots in the same spot on all lines. Some lines of dots are flush with the next column while others randomly come short by what looks like 2-3 or even 5-6 spaces on the right for no particular reason.

Any suggestions as to how I could handle this and create a "template" that I could reuse for all recipes…? Without having to adjust each one manually until they look ~OK…? Keeping in mind this is an epub I'm talking about and transferring it to the Kobo e-reader I use is not a simple matter of saving my changes and hitting CTRL-R to reload the html file in Google Chrome or Firefox.
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Formatting cbr comic for ipad

August 16, 2017, 11:42 am
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Could someone help me with formatting comics for the ipad? I have tried to format comics in the epub format for my ipad but the comics do not appear readable. The comics only take up half the screen. Is there something in settings that I can adjust? Any assistance is appreciated.
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Strange result (font embedding)

August 21, 2017, 5:55 am
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I finished a book in calibre, and I wanted to embed a font since the text contains also other characters than ASCII and their support may vary.

I remember that this is a PITA and somehow it looks to me a question of chance rather than method. I know that somehow I manage this, yet the time outs between these results lays a memory-erase blanket upon my mind - I simply do not remember how I did it.

As always I instruct calibre to embed fonts, and it does. Then I subset it, to save some space.

Usually the problems appear to be linked to the missing style, either Bold or Italic, or the Bold-Italic.

In this case however, only two characters of a word are shown in Italic, both the same é, but not the rest of the word.


In other places, the Italics are not observed at all (it should have been 076.384 Universitate


Has anyone of you ever met this strange situation? And if yes, is there any explanation and a cure?

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Preventing breaks at the end of a line.

September 14, 2017, 4:00 am
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I've just prepared an ebook which several times refers to a city as T--, with the -- as a long line. When this occurs at the end of a line print the T is at the end of the line, and the -- is on the next line.

I've tried T&mdash; and T*&mdash, but they don't work, and my Sony chokes on T & # 2805; as does MobileRead.

Is there another way of forcing the T and the &mdash; to stick together?
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Why ePub 3?

September 17, 2017, 10:09 am
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Why create an ePub 3 eBook that really uses none of the ePub 3 specific features? What good does that do? I can't think of any good. It would actually be easier to create ePub 2 eBooks unless you need some ePub 3 feature.
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Overdrive file reading issues

September 19, 2017, 11:32 am
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I made an epub file in InDesign and converted it to a mobi file for Kindle, which is what the client will be selling the book for. The Kindle file appears to work correctly when viewed in the Kindle app, but they are looking at the epub file in Overdrive and there are a few issues. The superscripts are huge and one of the graphics is overlapping the text.

Any ideas how to fix those? I can sort of duplicate them when I view the file in the Overdrive app, but I am unfamiliar with Overdrive so I'm not totally sure how to fix it.

Thanks.
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[Tables] Different number of rows per column

September 22, 2017, 7:58 am
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Don't jump too easy on conclusions: I searched a lot and all answers were somehow like "use rospan/colspan" with the obvious tables of menus or calender...

What I need is that a table has 4 equal cells in the first column and 3 equal ones in the second column (of course, both columns having the same height).

I tried
Code:
<tr>
  <td rowspan="3">Cell 1:1</td>
  <td rowspan="4">Cell 1:2</td>
 </tr>
<tr/>
<tr>
  <td rowspan="3">Cell 2:1</td>
</tr>
<tr/>
 <tr>
  <td rowspan="3">Cell 3:1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td rowspan="4">Cell 2:2</td>
</tr>
<tr/>
 <tr>
  <td rowspan="4">Cell 4:1</td>
 </tr>
<tr/>
 <tr>
  <td rowspan="3">Cell 3:2</td>
 </tr>
<tr/>
The trouble is that cells 1:1 and the 2:1 correspond in height to cell 1:2, which should not be the case in the case of equal size.
Any ideas of improving it?
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batch modify a CSS property?

September 29, 2017, 12:06 am
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Hi

Is it possible to modify the value of one CSS property in a batch of EPUBs?

Say, I wish to write: vertical-align: text-top instead of vertical-align: top?
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Problems building interactive books (adding nodes and localstorage)

October 2, 2017, 2:17 am
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Hi,

I'm making some tests in EPUB3. I have two problems I can not understand if there is a way to bypass.

a) in iBooks: if I change a localstorage value in a chapter, the other chapters accessing the same value do not get the updated value until I quit the application and start it again (sigh);

b) if I add nodes to the DOM of a chapter (for example a 6 page chapter), and the chapter "size", adding nodes, become bigger that before (for example 7 page), the text flowed in page 7 disappears. I did not found a way to ask iBooks or ADE to "re-paginate" a chapter after I add nodes to the DOM.

Suggestions?


Fabrizio
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Citing Websites

October 5, 2017, 8:22 am
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I often have occasion to cite websites, which in an ebook causes great stumbles in justification. Can I head this off by going something like this:

www.something/­something/­something.htm

So www.something/something/something.htm would break after any blackslash (or full stop, for that matter)?

I suppose I could do much the same by calling for ragged-right in bibliographies, but that wouldn't handle the occasional very long url.

Thanks!
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break/no-break and other spaces

October 9, 2017, 1:49 am
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I like to replace ellipses with spaced periods, since I don't like the usual ellipsis glyph, and it doesn't allow variations like . . . . or . . . ? or . . . !
Also to space between nested quotemarks, which otherwise look like a triple mark ’” but with space ’ ”.


I see some books just use a normal space, but that allows a linewrap to occur, which should never be.
So I have been using &nbsp;
Aside from being no-break, otherwise it acts the same as a normal space; and so it stretches or compresses when the text is justified, and that sometimes looks odd.

I just looked at a Random House epub that used thin spaces: &thinsp;
Which looks better I think. However, is it treated as a no-break space, in all formats -- epub and Kindle?


While looking into this, I found this list of 17 Unicode space characters:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...ry/Zs/list.htm

U+0020 SPACE
U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
U+1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK
U+2000 EN QUAD
U+2001 EM QUAD
U+2002 EN SPACE
U+2003 EM SPACE
U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPACE
U+2005 FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE
U+2007 FIGURE SPACE
U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE
U+2009 THIN SPACE
U+200A HAIR SPACE
U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
U+205F MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

Are all these valid in ebooks?
I assume that only the first two are elastic in size, is that correct?
And aside from nbsp, which are no-break?

Apologies if this is a FAQ, please link if there is such.
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issue with last opened position

October 18, 2017, 10:58 pm
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hello,
I got some ebooks that got a correct TOC, are validated with calibre and epubvalidator but they can't register the last opened position. Thus each time i open them up, I'm getting rolled back on page 1. This happen on all my reader and on koreader and nickel so i suspect it's something inside the epub but got no idea where to search... Also, in these books some of the bookmark I created also send me back on page 1.

any help ?
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I need help trying to find an epub reader.

October 24, 2017, 5:50 am
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I used to have an epub reader for PC that let you make annotations and highlights, and to scroll the epub by pages, not by lines. The interface looked very much like this version of foxit reader, but it seemed older and with a lighter shade of blue.



I tried downloading older versions of foxit reader but none of them work with epubs.

Anyone knows the name of the reader?

Thanks.
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Unable to open ePubs in newest Kindle Previewer

October 31, 2017, 12:32 pm
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Hello everyone,

I really hope someone can help me because I've spend all morning trying to figure this out :-( I have been previewing my ePubs with Kindle Previewer with no problem for weeks. This morning, I updated to the latest version of the previewer and I'm now receiving the following error when opening my latest ePub:

....Book conversion failed....

Granted, I've made many changes on the book I'm working on in the past 24 hours, but the conversion log shows me no errors at all that should prevent the previewer from opening it. I'm really going nuts and I've researched every line of the conversion log, and can see no reason for the failure. Here is the log. Thanks in advance for ANY help you can offer:
************************************************** ***********
Amazon kindlegen(Windows) V2.9 build 0830-03578f
A command line e-book compiler
Copyright Amazon.com and its Affiliates 2015
************************************************** ***********

Info:I9026:option: (hidden) amazon creator tool or pipeline

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Title "The Body Healer Protocol: Heal Your Body and Transform Your Life with High Vibrational Living"

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Date "2017-10-20T02:45:28Z"

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Creator "Julia Bennett"

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Publisher "Wolfwood Press"

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Subject "high vibrational living, higher vibration, personal transformation, the body healer, diet, weight loss, detoxification, detox, protocol, natural healing, heal cancer naturally, heal diabetes naturally, cancer treatment, cancer protocol, integrative medicine, create your own reality

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Rights "All rights reserved. Copyright Wolfwood Press 2017"

Info(prcgen):I1047: Added metadata dc:Description "The Body Healer Protocol is a cutting edge approach to achieving health, wealth, happiness, and manifesting the life of your dreams through the power of high vibrational living



PUBLISHER: Wolfwood Press

"

Info(prcgen):I1052: Kindle support cover images but does not support cover HTML. Hence using the cover image specified and suppressing cover HTML in content. URL: C:\Users\Dragon\AppData\Local\Temp\mbp_7E1_A_1F_D_ 10_1D_20F_7770_12744_1\OEBPS\cover.xhtml

Info(prcgen):I1002: Parsing files 0000098

Info(cssparser):I10004: @rules other than @import, @charset and @font-face are not supported.

Info(prcgen):I1015: Building PRC file

Info(prcgen):I1006: Resolving hyperlinks

Info(pagemap):I8000: No Page map found in the book

Info(prcgen):I1045: Computing UNICODE ranges used in the book

Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Basic Latin http://20..7E

Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Latin-1 Supplement http://A0..FF

Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: General Punctuation - Windows 1252 http://2018..201A

Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Latin Extended-A http://100..17F

Info(prcgen):I1046: Found UNICODE range: Basic Greek http://370..3FF

Info(prcgen):I1017: Building PRC file, record count: 0000496

Info(prcgen):I1039: Final stats - text compressed to (in % of original size): 43.67%

Info(prcgen):I1040: The document identifier is: "The_Body_Hea-ational_Living"

Info(prcgen):I1041: The file format version is V6

Info(prcgen):I1031: Saving PRC file

Info(prcgen):I1032: PRC built successfully

Info(prcgen):I1016: Building enhanced PRC file

Info(prcgen):I1007: Resolving mediaidlinks

Info(prcgen):I1011: Writing mediaidlinks

Info(prcgen):I1009: Resolving guide items

Info(prcgen):I1017: Building PRC file, record count: 0000601

Info(prcgen):I1039: Final stats - text compressed to (in % of original size): 43.23%

Info(prcgen):I1041: The file format version is V8

Info(prcgen):I15000: Approximate Standard Mobi Deliverable file size : 0009760KB

Info(prcgen):I15001: Approximate KF8 Deliverable file size : 0010376KB

Info(prcgen):I1036: Mobi file built successfully
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summarize for me the features in enhanced epub 3

November 8, 2017, 6:09 am
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can you summarize for me the features in enhanced epub 3?

I know it can play audio and video and I know that the book page numbers can be applied to the ebook display.
(Hopefully I got that right.)

We are looking to ensure that we are capitalizing on the features of our ebooks
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