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Old 12-10-2010, 05:07 PM   #1
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Creating epub books by hand
I have been playing around with creating my own e-pub books by hand. (I like the old-fashioned craftsmanship of creating docs with a plain text editor!). I found these sites the most useful if you are interested in trying it yourself.

http://sites.google.com/site/spontan...-epub-tutorial

http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/183/cr...-epub-document

http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/...pub-files.html

http://www.hxa.name/articles/content...7241_2007.html

http://blog.threepress.org/2008/12/0...eveloperworks/

http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/tutorial.asp

Tools that you need to download (free) are epubcheck... http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ ...for validating your code and info-zip for packing up the epub package... http://www.willus.com/archive/zip64/.

Some of questions I have for anyone who has more experience of epub than me:
  • Is there a (paper) book on creating epub. I have done a search but cant find anything substantial. The websites I have quoted are fine for creating epub books but they do no cover all the options exhaustively.
  • The META-INF folder. Does it have to be in u/c? It seems to be in all the examples I've looked at. I have tried it in l/c and it works fine but there may be some contexts in which it will not.
  • Is there any objection to locating the .opf and .ncx files in the META-INF folder alongside container.xml? It works OK and seems neater to me. That way you can place all the content in a 'content' folder along with the images, css and pages. My expeiments suggest that naming and location of files is pretty flexible so lond as you put all the pointers in the right places.

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