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Originally Posted by Hitch
Given that Apple does not obey half the rules of generally-accepted ePUB design, their devices are not a great place to start to learn to make ePUBs. However, as you have one, you should go out and buy Liz Castro's "ePUB: straight to the point" in order to learn the fundamentals of ebook-making. With Liz's book, you can ignore the whole front section on InDesign, but pick out the bits applicable to ePUBs. The entire back half is very useful. There are also very good tutorials here on Mobileread.
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Oh, I didn't realize that about Apple devices, that they don't comply with the epub standards -- I just assumed (mistakenly) that, if anything, they did moreso than other readers. My bad! One should never presume.
As for Liz Castro's book, I managed to find (quite easily) a copy in PDF format. I browsed through it, but it would appear to be less-advanced than I think I need -- I don't really see anything in there that I don't already know. And forgive me for saying so, but I was quite put off by her
horrendous sense of typographic design -- to make an analogy, she might be a good car mechanic and is able to get all the "inner workings" running smoothly, but on the outside her book is an Edsel.
Seriously, that's one of the most awfully-designed publications I've ever seen (not only in the PDF, but amazon let's you "look inside" and what you see is basically exactly the same), which, quite frankly, leaves me questioning her as being some sort of "expert" in the field. :/
Please don't hate me for saying so -- I do appreciate the suggestion, and if I was more of a beginner than I am then I'm sure her book would have been quite helpful. So thank you, still, for the suggestion!
And I will most certainly take your other suggestion and check out some of Jellby's stuff -- just like with web design, the nice thing about epub design is that if you're stumped on how to do something, you can just find someone who can and then just look at their code and learn how.
Thanks!
