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Originally Posted by DaleDe
There is no perfect way to deal with this. Some ePUB readers do not support links at all and many do not support automatic back functions. There are a couple of choices.
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That, I got. This goes under "Why Ebook Readers Will Not Be Taking Over The Academic World Anytime Soon." Lack of efficient ways of dealing with references means they're not really useable for serious research.
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Provide both a link to the data and a return link at the beginning and the end of the note to return to the text. Works well if only linked from one source. It is also possible to provide a page number. ADE at least assigns a distinct page number to the eBook and this can be used with built in Goto function.
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They're linked from one source (or I can leave them as linked from one source) like footnotes. I can also put the notes sections in the TOC so they'll be accessible from the main contents nav page (whatever that is for various devices) if internal links aren't supported.
I don't think I can deal with page numbers; I'm not that fluent with epub. Also, I want to make mobi versions as well.
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Which you use, I think, depends on how important the note is to the information. It may be that the author expects people to read the note, in which case, setting it apart but remaining in the flow would be appropriate.
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Main body of book: ~40,000 words.
Notes: ~25,000 words.
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As to your image question the size is really the only negative and generally images are worth the price of increased size to the document.
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Images:
Book cover: I've got it set at 900x1200 pixels but could make that smaller.
Author photo: Tiny. 150x300 pixels or so. Could leave this out, but don't need to.
Chart: one line-drawing table. Could make it a b&w tiff, except I think a lot of readers won't deal with that. But it's tiny filesize.
Just wondering if I should be paying attention to any pros-and-cons of jpg vs gif vs png vs other options.
I've also got some tables, but I'm converting those and going to deal with formatting the tables in HTML. (Hopefully, I will find a program that helps with this; I hate manually coding tables. It always takes me a dozen tries to get it right.)
I've got a next book lined up that has *lots* of tables, and I'm trying to decide if I need to convert those to text (and deal with screwy table formatting in various ebook formats) or make them images, and if so, gah, how do I best make them usable on different screen sizes.