08-14-2015, 03:12 PM | #1 |
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EPUB footnotes are nearly impossible to click
-Also affects the Aura HD, and I'm assuming all other units
I read a good deal of EPUBs that contain hyperlinked footnotes. Unfortunately, I have to convert the EPUB to a KEPUB to keep the functionality of the footnote intact. EPUB footnotes are virtually impossible to click - you essentially have to click right on one or two pixels. When after multiple tries you do manage to click the footnote, it jumps you to the section of the EPUB in which the footnotes are aggregated. At that point, it's another ordeal to click back to your original page if the footnote spans a page or two and you can't conveniently use the back button. KEPUBs, on the other hand, are incredibly friendly to footnotes. It's incredibly easy to click on the actual link, as the clickable area is pretty generous. Furthermore, the footnote is generated in an extremely useful popup window. Unfortunately, the give and take of this is that I have to deal with another set of problems in converting my EPUBs to KEPUBs and maintaining everything 1:1. Is there a patch that I'm missing? Is there anything we can do to pressure Kobo to fix this issue? Does anyone have any solutions that have worked for them? |
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08-14-2015, 05:39 PM | #4 |
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I also owned a Sony Daily Edition before jumping over to Kobo. Never had any issues with clicking footnotes on that device. I feel that Kobo must be crippling something in its EPUB implementation
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08-14-2015, 06:40 PM | #5 |
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I've used the surgical approach, i.e. open your epub in an epub editor (calibre or Sigil) and
- edit the css to display the footnote clickable item with a larger font-size - edit the html to increase the target area of the part you click. I add square brackets round the number, e.g. [1] However, if that's too much trouble, if you like kepubs but don't want to go to the trouble of manually converting epub-to-kepub can't you just use the Kobo Extended driver to do it all for you during the send-to-device from calibre. That way you only need to keep a single master epub in calibre but the driver will automagically deliver a kepub version to the Kobo. No thinking required. |
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KEPUBs introduce their own trade-offs, namely wasted header space. Also, conversions also fail to reproduce the original look in a 1:1 manner. |
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08-15-2015, 12:48 AM | #7 |
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Koreader lets you follow links or disable them, you can set "Swipe to go back". It makes it pretty easy for most books such as "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". It can still be a little tricky to poke the little link #. (You might want to try a larger font, to see if that makes it easier.)
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Not sure about the Nook but I seem to remember quite a few complaints about selecting footnotes and returning from them along with complaints where reading an epub using the Nook application allowed accessing the footnotes but on a Nook eInk device, they didn't work or worked erratically. |
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vermine,<a class="urllink" href="../Text/Section0058.xhtml#fn7" id="ifn7"><span class="supscrpt">7</span></a> <a class="normal" href="../Text/Section0058.xhtml#fn7" id="ifn7">vermine,<span class="supscrpt amiblue">7</span></a> |
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08-15-2015, 03:18 AM | #10 |
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I miss my old Cybook, with hardware buttons you could click to cycle through the links in the page. Touchscreens are cool, but sometimes you need real buttons (for page turning too).
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