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Old 11-18-2013, 02:53 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by osprofi View Post
Hi
thanks for your quick responses
1) I read in an articles that I have to divide the content files into chunks which equal the page content and then reference in the spine element. This seems hurrible work.
2) I agree that having diff screen sizes the page outlook will be different. This is maybe solved with some css formatting ?
Files should be broken into chunks because there are ereaders that cannot handle content files which are too large. However, you should divide the content files into 1 file = 1 chapter, and that will take care of creating pagebreaks to separate each chapter.

css will not solve the different screen sizes issue, but does it really need fixing? ebooks are a different paradigm altogether from paper books. Page numbers are meaningless except as a reference to locations within the paper copy of the book. The rule for ebooks is to just divide up the chapters and let the ereader create the "pages" -- it is how basically all ebooks are made.

By using the PageList you can create a page number index that Amazon will use to generate page numbers; by using Page-map, Adobe-based readers/apps will generate page numbers as well.

If you don't need to reference a paper book, you can just ignore these altogether.
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