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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
As far as creating/editing epub3s for iBooks, I thought Apple had their own program for doing so.
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Oh, that's right, iBooks Author -- ha ha, I'd totally forgotten about that!
I just looked into it a bit, and the software is Mac only, unfortunately. I'm a PC guy, though, although I did HAVE to buy a Mac laptop, just to be able to load up my books to the iTunes Store (which I think is crazy on their part, that they made the iTunes Producer for that Mac-only). That's pretty much all that I use it for -- it's not that I'm anti-Mac or anything, but my desktop PC is just so much more convenient to use, and virtually
every other software that I use is on there (Sigil, Photoshop, etc. etc. etc.).
Plus, I forget where I read this, but it would seem that if you create an ebook using iBooks Author, you can
only ever sell it on the iTunes store -- while an ebook with these pop-up notes would only really seem practically feasible for that platform right now, it would be nice if/when eventually things change that I could later also create a Kindle version as well.
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Also, the editor in calibre doesn't try to fix things for you behind the scenes (like Sigil does), so while it’s not really indended to be an epub 3 editor, I see no reason why it wouldn't save valid epub3/html5 code. Provided, of course, that you didn't use any automated beautifying/fixing features.
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Apart from Sigil, and apart from designing ebooks, I do have an HTML editor that I love (Homesite -- as old as it is) and have a fair bit of experience with designing web pages, although I'm somewhat behind the times and have never designed anything with HTML5.
So I suppose that might be an option -- which is something that I've really just never looked into yet, i.e. how to design epubs in the epub3 format, using HTML5 (I presume that's a prerequisite for epub3?), working right in the code via my HTML editor (Homesite). If I did that, I'm not sure what I would need Calibre for???
I have this weird feeling that I'm being clueless and missing something here -- pardon my ignorance.
[EDIT] PS... further to what I wrote earlier, I just came across this article on Liz Castro's site, which naturally only leaves me with even less desire than I had before (which was practically none) to use iBooks Author...
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/20...nd-or-use.html