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11-21-2012, 09:54 AM | #1 |
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Placing inside-links in your Kindle book to reference different sections
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As I'm preparing my Kindle book, I was thinking, do any of you authors link to the different sections of the book inside? What I mean is, other than the Table of Contents, do you do any more linking inside the book? For example: Just like you read in Part II (insert link/hyperlink), you will be reading more about it in this part. Is it too much of a problem to be linking inside the book to other sections/parts of the book? I don't have a Kindle tablet yet, so I don't know if authors do it or if it is possible to do Thanks you all |
11-21-2012, 10:28 AM | #2 |
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It's quite common to use hyperlinks to footnotes (or, more properly, endnotes). Many people include a link back from the note to the text, just in case the reader has no "back" button. I've also seen lists of illustrations with links, but I suppose this is a kind of TOC.
There's no reason why you shouldn't use links elsewhere as well, but you'll need to do a lot of testing. |
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Hi Sara
It's very simple to create hyperlinks in the ebook. It's a two-step process: 1) create an anchor in the target file you will link to 2) create a link to this anchor in the file you will link from For example, using Sigil, you create an anchor using a pair of DIV tags and an ID property in the target / linked-to file just above the place you want to link to: <div id="ANCHOR_NAME"> </div> In Sigil this is what you should enter in the file you are linking from: <p><a href="../Text/FILENAME_OF_LINKED_TO_FILE.xhtml#ANCHOR_NAME">The user will see the text here</a></p> Obviously both FILENAME_OF_LINKED_TO_FILE and ANCHOR_NAME can be anything you choose, always best to keep them logical! You can, of course, also link to positions within the same file / chapter. And as Martin says, you need to test each link on the Kindle itself. Hope this helps! |
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One thing though, I'm using OpenOffice to write the manuscript and I have an online guide that shows me how to put it into Kindle via OpenOffice alone (i.e. not using Sigil). Can I put this same code in OpenOffice or is there any other way to do it via OpenOffice? Thanks again. |
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I haven't used OpenOffice but I'm sure there will be a facility to create anchors and hyperlinks within the document, and I'm sure it won't involve writing any HTML code.
In Microsoft Word an anchor is called a bookmark and you can find them under the Insert menu. Hyperlinks are still hyperlinks. Create the bookmark at the place you want to link to, and add a hyperlink anywhere in the document where you want to link to that bookmark. |
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Creating links is fine but be aware that as the user moves around, the Kindle's Furthest Page Read setting will be affected.
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Did you figure out how to add internal hyperlinks? Its straightforward in Openoffice and similar to Word - but unless you are writing very simply formatted content, you will struggle to go export straight from OO to a well-formatted Kindle book.
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