Tutorials

Formatting a Bilingual Poetry Collection in EPUB

May 14, 2012

One EPUB formatting question which I recently got interested in was: how to create a bilingual poetry book? That is, if you want to have a book of poetry in one language with line-by-line translation to another language (to aid a reader who knows the language of the original not too well), how do you [...]

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Formatting Poetry for EPUB and Small Devices

December 12, 2011

What we are going to discuss here is how to format poetry in XHTML format (which underlies EPUB) so that it looks nice on smartphone screens – that is, when many or even all of the lines do not fit the screen width. In other words, our concern is how to break poetry lines nicely. [...]

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Creating EPUB ebooks with InDesign CS5: Training Course

January 16, 2011

During some research on using Adobe’s InDesign to create EPUB documents I came across this UK training course entitled, “Creating ePubs with InDesign”, which is being run by Highlander, one of the UK’s oldest and most successful training providers for the creative, web and marketing sectors. They have two 1 Day sessions available in March [...]

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Library Books & eReaders

December 28, 2010

Now firmly placed as a mainstream item, ebooks have grown in popularity enough for many libraries to have started making digital versions from their catalogue available for lending. The only thing you’ll need, except your eReader and an appropriate library card, is an Adobe ID (see below). Most libraries that do provide ebooks are using [...]

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EPUB Creation: When Subject Matters

July 30, 2010

Whether you call them categories, subjects or genres, how you label your book is vitally important, perhaps especially so in these times of the digital marketplace. Being placed correctly in ebook stores and libraries can help in both regular searches and with discovery techniques such as “Similar Titles”. The EPUB format has been developed to [...]

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Experiment: Advancing EPUB with HTML5 Video’s

November 16, 2009

There are a number of people in the eBook world who really know their ePub format – luckily for us they enjoy sharing this knowledge among the community. One of these such people is Bookworm developer, Liza Daly. There’s a lot of a misconception around the ePub format with the belief that it is not [...]

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Creating an ePub document from XHTML

September 25, 2008

In my last post I talked about the epubBooks Project and how I plan to convert Project Gutenberg .txt eBooks to the ePub format and how I will make these eBooks available for download from ePubBooks.com. I already have in place a converter to transform the PG .txt files to a TEI Master Format and [...]

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TOC tutorial on how to read O’Reilly ePub books on your iPhone

August 30, 2008

Andrew Savikas over on the O’Reilly TOC has written a nice tutorial on how to read your O’Reilly ePub formatted books on the iPhone using Stanza. One thing to note about this is that he was only successful in doing so when using his MacBook Pro, he was unable to say the same about the [...]

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Looking for a guide to creating ePub documents?

April 10, 2008

I created this site because there are very few blogs, mailing lists and other resources on the ePub standard. I wanted to try and bring together the few that there are in one handy place, in the hope to make this information easily available. I am no ePub expert myself so I’m continually searching for [...]

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