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Old 12-11-2010, 10:49 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by RobW View Post
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.
You probably meant "a (paper) book other than ePub specs themselves". Since ePub is a standard, and specs are freely accessible, I used them as reference material, and the experience wasn't all that bad. The download page is here:
http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm

Adobe has provided us with its own EPUB Best Practices Guide which is of interest if you want to ensure that your ePub works well on ADE, the most frequently seen ePub reading software on eInk devices.

These two sources, in combination with Ainsworth's excellent construction guide (present in your list) form a backbone of my reference material for hand-editing ePubs.
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