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embed epub3 in a web page

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I wanted to embed my epub3 ebook into an html web page, attached is my ideal format in front pic.png, I like the side menu, is this possible?

I used iframe and get the result as shown in front pic1.png but it shows hover popup tool bar

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Streamlined Apple Books validator?

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Is there any streamlined Apple Books validator?
I've been searching around, found this, but was wondering if there was anything less convoluted.

Problem adding extra lines in text

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I am trying to edit an epub in Sigil before I use Calibre to remove spaces between paragraphs. Normally I don't have a problem doing this, but either Calibre adds space between paragraphs I do not want, or it removes the space between scenes inside of paragraphs I would like to maintain.

I would like to add something like this ***** between scene breaks inside of chapters where there's currently a space, or add multiple spaces, or something. But when I try to edit it in Sigil I see this command, not at the END of the paragraph where the scene break is, but at the start of the paragraph that will have the break at the end of it...

<p class="Normal-space-after">

Is there some way to search and replace all of these into something like, just as an example...

<p class="Normal-*****-after">

I know I cannot do this of course, but I think you get the idea.


Thank you for any help,
Andy

Epubs and old eink reader

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Has anyone else had problems loading epubs on an old eink reader? I have an old Bebook, I love it coz the battery, even after all this time, still stays good for at least a week, but about half of the books I buy (with DRM or without) won't open on it. Is there something funny happening with newer formatting that stops them being compatible with older ereaders? (and I have the last available update for the Bebook)

Thanks for any thoughts

Formatting Problem Converting .azw3 to .epub

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Hello, I have several .azw3 ebooks (without DRM) that I would like to convert to .epub.

I have tried multiple online converters, as well as installed programs like Calibre, epubor, etc to complete this conversion.

Unfortunately these are childrens books that contain both text and pictures on every page, and the converted files never display correctly.

Either all the pictures (background images) display with no text, or the text displays with no images, or half the images display with incorrectly placed text, or the images from multiple pages overlap, etc. They never come out right.

I have even tried using "KindleUnpack" to exact the azw3 file to look at the file structure, but i can not figure out the problem. Each page is a .xhtml file which contains the "Text" and sets the images as a "Background image" stored in a different folder.

I have to assume the problem is related to either the content.opf file or one of the two .css files. However I don't have any clue of what to edit in them.

I want the ebook to display correctly on my PC, iPad and Fire Tablet.

I have attached an example .azw3 file that i want to convert to .epub.

Image Display Size Help

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I'm still fairly new at this so please be patient.

I'm trying to display a small image (ne-logo.png) and resize it 50% using CSS in the stylesheet. But whatever I change on the CSS makes no difference! Please tell me where I'm going wrong.

The image is 100px square at 72dpi.

HTML:
Code:

<span class=“s3”><img src="images/ne-logo100.png" alt="ne-logo100.png" class=“s2”/></span></img>
CSS:
Code:

.s2 { /* NE LOGO */
  height: 50%;
  width: 50%
}
.s3 { /* NE LOGO */
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: baseline;
  width: 1.336em;
  margin-left: 0%;
  margin-top: 2%;
  padding-top: 2%;
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0%;
  text-indent: 0;
  max-width: 50%;
  width: 100.000%;
}

Thanks in advance.

KindleUnpack - Fixed Layout - two pages per spread

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Hi, I have been searching for quite a while but could not figure out. I have a fixed layout AZW3 book. I used KindleUnpack to get the epub version of the book. The book is in portrait mode and displays two pages in landscape mode in the Kindle app. It's a fixed layout picture book. I was reviewing the .opf file. Each spread is basically two [portrait mode] pages. so In landscape mode it displayed one spread/two-pages at a time. It works out all well. Now the epub version on ipad displays one spread (two pages) at a time in portrait mode and two spreads at a time in landscape mode. The code from .opf looks like below.

Has anyone run into this issue? What would I need to change to make ipad behave the same way as Kindle app?

Thank you!

Code:

<meta name="output encoding" content="utf-8" />
<meta name="RegionMagnification" content="true" />
<meta name="primary-writing-mode" content="horizontal-lr" />
<meta name="fixed-layout" content="true" />
<meta name="orientation-lock" content="landscape" />
<meta name="original-resolution" content="1152x756" />
<!-- EPUB3 MedaData converted from EXTH -->
<meta property="rendition:layout">pre-paginated</meta>
<meta property="rendition:orientation">portrait</meta>

epub image displayed only partial

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Hi there,
I own an old Trekstor Pyrus mini.
Sadly I have book with some images/ graphics, which won't display completely. Only the left half of the image is shown and the rest is cut of.
Changing the font size or rotating the book to landscape won't help.

Is there a way to re-edit the epub file directly?

EDIT.
Sorry, my bad, seems to be a problem of the reader. Calibre scales it correctly.

So, I guess it's something about the settings of the epub format. It seems calire has some settings to change settings, like I can convert the book from one epub format to another. Any hints on that?

keeping lines together?

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Apologies if this is a really basic question, but I've been looking and I haven't been able to figure it out.

Is there a way to keep lines together -- for example, a heading with the next few lines of text, or a figure with its caption, or an endnote number with the corresponding endnote?

I'm very rusty in Calibre (and never was a power user). When I import a Word (.docx) file and convert it to .epub, these types of paired items don't stick together. Is there some way to make it happen? Would it work better if I imported an .html file instead of .docx?

Thanks for any clues!

Image resizing issues while using max-height/max-width

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Hello,

First of all, sorry if I'm not using the correct terms or if my explanation is a little fuzzy, I'm very new to this and English isn't my first language.

I'm working on a ePub containing a lot of images which is a first for me. Some images are extra wide, some are extra long.
My goal is to use the same set of parameters on all images, no matter their dimensions or orientations, that would display each of them at the biggest possible scale without exceeding any ereader screen size and while keeping the correct aspect ratio.

My current code is the following:

Code:

<div style="width: 100%; max-height: 100%;">
    <img style="max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; display: block;" src="image.jpg" />
</div>

I was thinking that:
1. The container div would take 100% of the page width (that part seems to work);
2. The image, using "display: block" would try to take up 100% of its container width but would stop scaling it as soon as the height would reach 100% (that part doesn't seem to work).

If I only have one image on the screen, it scales correctly but as soon as I have other elements displayed, it looks like they're squeezing the image and its container div.

Example: in the following picture, I'd like for the images to be scaled according to the available width of the page/div and push the other elements (tables, texts) down instead of being squeezed by them (I put a 1px border on one of the image container div to confirm it was taking up 100% of the page width).
https://i.stack.imgur.com/66cb6.jpg

Does anyone know how this could be fixed?


Thank you a lot for reading.

adding mass metadata to epub files from json?

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Hello!

I recently inherited thousands of epub files (just under 10K) from a fanfiction site has now closed down and added them all to a new calibre library today. I only noticed afterwards that the epubs have no metadata attached to them and that there's a json file in the folder which contains all of the metadata.

How do I merge the metadata.json with the epubs? The thought of adding it back by hand makes me want to gnash teeth.

I use a Mac, OS 10.15.5, so if I do need an additional program, it would be helpful if it is Mac based.

MIME type for Nook?

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I've been checking my .epub in various e-reader apps (on an Android phone, if that makes a difference). I can call it up in most apps I've tried, but for the Nook app I get an error message that begins "unsupported MIME type".

The mimetype file currently reads "application/epub+zip".

I would like this .epub to be easily accessible by someone whose primary e-reader is a Nook. I'm not trying to sell it through Nook/B&N. Does anyone know what I need to do to placate the demigods of Nookland?

FWIW, the full error message is: "File with unsupported MIME type: /storage/emulated/0/Nook/copy/nameofepub"

Anybody here dealt with "Redshelf" vis: ePUB?

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Hey, guys:

So...about 6 mos back, we made this gigantically complicated eBook for a customer that provides classoom materials and learning stuff. So, we slogged through it, with about a billion revisions and finally, Hooray, it was done and client was thrilled. Yeah.

But today, I get this: (Edited with ellipses to protect client's privacy or to omit irrelevant cruft):

Quote:

We uploaded [...] ePub that you did for us to RedShelf, and in reviewing its functionality, we are seeing problems caused by their proprietary pagination. The page numbers in their browser display system sit off to the right of the page, and push the content out of alignment, and/or introduce large gaps between paragraphs.

We brought this up to them, and they replied that the pagination issues are a result of page numbers not being embedded in the ePub. RedShelf displays each chapter as one scrollable “page,” with the specific “page numbers” as callouts to the right. Rather than RedShelf’s arbitrary placement of their page numbers, we would like to assign our own page numbers that would coincide with the page breaks in the print book. We would like your help in embedding these into the ePub file, if possible.

Is there a way to easily address this kind of issue by somehow appending the ePub file, without throwing off compatibility with other ePub readers? Or would we need to develop a separate ePub file specifically for this vendor?

Another issue is that a few graphics at the bottom of the unit pages get cut off (clipped) at the bottom of the page. These are QR Codes, specifically, which are important to navigation in the case of [...]. It’s as if some kind of “space” needs to be added at the end of these chapters. There are only a few instances of this and we’d love to see if there is something you can do to prevent the QR Codes from being cut off.
Eh? I mean, whu?

Does anyone here know anything about this? Anything at ALL? I've never--never--heard of any ePUB retailer ASKING for page numbers to be embedded in an ePUB, a reflowable ePUB, and I've never heard of anything so bizarre as page sizes somehow being assigned or...whatever.

Anybody?

Hitch

Sidebar and Dropcaps in PDF

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Hello Guys,

My first post in forum to get help in conversion.

I'm trying to convert a pdf book to EPUB format for mobile friendly reading. The PDF has sidebars and dropcaps. Now these two things spoils the format of my EPUB.

Can you please help me with it?


Thanks
Avnish

Adobe Digital Editions and PNGs

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Does anyone know a way to correctly display transparencies in ADE?
My PNGs and GIFs end up looking like the attached image.

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Best way to link Chapter Reference Notes

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Hi:
What is the simplest/easiest/best way to link over 500 chapter reference notes that are not linked in my epub. (using Sigil, Calibre or some other means)

i am a beginner and I was hoping this is a common problem people get around.

The links worked online viewing of ebook.

In the xHTML, using Sigil I can see

link within the chapter body
<a href="m-ISBN-chapter-1#m-ISBN-chapter-1-bibItem-54" class="Ya2">Surname (1985)</a>

reference at end of chapter
<p class="TD0">Surname, J. (1985). <i class="ZR661">Book Title</i>. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.<span class="VQ918">Find this resource:</span></p>

I cannot see in the xHTML that each chapter reference item has been tagged by a number e.g. bibItem-54

Thankyou for your help

Turning epub with links into a paperback

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I have an epub which uploads to KDP without an issue, but I want to create a paperback version of the book, but the epub has 100's of hyperlinks, too many to remove manually.

When I try to upload the epub to KDP I receive the message 'Error processing interior', which I assume is because of all the links.

Is there any way to 'turn off' all links?

Choosing the display of characters

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I create linguistic epubs for a non-profit. Currently we have an ePub that the author is requesting his book to be in Gentium font and to display the "opentail" g [a circle with a tail that points left or 'single-storey'] over the "looptail" [two circles, connected by a line on the left side or 'double-storey'].

I created a test epub and font in normal or bold I get the looptail g, but in the italic form the opentail g is displayed.

This also effects the a [double-storey a and single-storey ɑ], likewise.

Is there any way to set the display for the reader?

EPUB problem - iBooks questions

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Hi
New to ePub Creation. Newbie Sigil user. I am new to this forum and could not find a general epub creation QnA section, for sigil epub creation. Hope this is correct place.

1) Contents showing on device TOC
In iBooks device TOC, the "Contents" page is not listed in device TOC. What is controlling this?

In ADE device TOC, the "Contents" page is listed in the device TOC correctly.

2) iBooks for some epubs has option tap to show number of pages ebook, tap to show number of pages Apple iBooks

What is controlling this feature?

Thankyou kindly for your time

Weird Formatting Issues, Extra Spaces

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I recently bought a copy of some translated Japanese books made by Kodansha. The book isn't actually in Japanese, but it looks like it uses Kodansha's stylesheets and so forth, and it's doing some weird things when I send it to an ebook reader. It looks completely normal in Calibre or Sigil, but when I send it to my Kobo or my Bookeen Diva, there's a giant space after every apostrophe and some letters will just disappear.

I've cleaned out several thousand unused styles and I can't find anything in them that I would expect to cause this. The encoding is UTF-8, just like the ebooks I make myself. Can anybody tell me what the source of this problem might be?
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