First, to DiapDealer, thanks for the heads-up regarding zipping up epub files -- I'm sure there's gotta be info about that here in these forums, so I'll look into that when the time comes (and if I can't find it then, I can always ask, of course).
On to odedta's reply...
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Originally Posted by odedta
Why not just create an EPUB 3 file with pop-up end|foot notes? it will work both on iBooks, on the newer Kindles and all other EPUB 3 supporting readers.
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Thanks for the link on Liz Castro's site -- I'd seen that already, actually (it comes up very easily when searching for "popup notes ebooks").
As for what you're saying there, though, I guess the only reason that I was thinking of sticking with iBooks-only (for now) is because, as you say, only the "newer Kindles" will support it. If I put it up on amazon, then anyone with any Kindle will be able to get it -- and if those pop-up notes don't actually "pop up", then the text in question would be utterly disastrous, thoroughly impractical to read/use and a huge disappointment to anyone downloading it.
I don't want to create a product that works "sometimes" -- I want to create something that WORKS. Plus, I've come to hate designing for Kindle, if you want to do anything "nice" -- and I only create things that are nice
-- then it's an absolute, total pain-in-the-butt to get it so that it'll work, and look reasonably okay, in all the different flavours of Kindle. I'm not saying that I'll never do so -- I've already done so, and no doubt will again -- but if what I want to do just isn't really very feasible at all, so that it works in ALL Kindles (like this project won't), then I would just rather forego that option.