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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Waste of time. You still have to create the endnotes the ePub 2 way for all other readers. So you'd have to do it twice when you can just do it the ePub 2 way and do it just once.
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And that just wouldn't be practical -- from the reader's point of view -- to have all those notes appear as endnotes. Assuming you've looked at the web page that I wanted to use as a basis for this ebook, it'd be crazy if someone didn't have a "pop-up capable" device, and for each and every note kept jumping to the end of the document. That's why I was thinking of just sticking with iBooks (for now).
However, as mrmikel was saying...
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
To quote a World War II phrase: Is this trip really necessary? If you put it up on the web, it will accessible by any tablet or phone. The javascript should work, I hope. You can make the pages smaller so they will display well and it might be a lot less work and you would still have your wiz-bang popups.
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Perhaps that might indeed the best advice so far -- it's just not worth the effort, even if it would indeed make a "nice" ebook.
I don't know -- maybe I'll just back-burner this for now. I know how to design epub2, but have never even looked into epub3 at all, so the coding would be new to me (to some extent), plus I'd have to do it in some other program than Sigil (and Sigil is sooooooo great for designing ebooks, in epub2 format, at least).
I guess my whole motivation for wanting to do this is because Thoreau's "Walden" (in particular) is a work that's very near and dear to me, it literally changed my life/perspective when I was still just a kid (a million years ago)
plus the prof that did up this wonderful annotated version is a friend of mine, and she gave me permission to do it up as an ebook (if it were possible and feasible).
But I don't know now. I do think an iBooks version would be way cool -- but then, I have an iPad (and that's the only ereader that I have), so naturally I'm biased.
I am aware, though, that that's a fairly limited audience, market-wise.
I'm still certainly open to any other suggestions and/or advice, if anyone has any thoughts. I am leaning toward maybe just back-burnering this project for now, but I haven't entirely convinced myself of that decision just yet.
Thanks for all the replies here (both those already, and any that might possibly still be forthcoming)!
