Thread: Hidden headings/links don't work in iBooks?
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Old 12-19-2014, 01:11 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by Psymon View Post
All complaints about Apple aside, how come I never hear anyone gripe about amazon? I mean, there you're talking about what? FIVE readers you have to design for, with all kinds of ridiculous kludges and multiple images, etc. etc. etc., just to do ONE simple, stupid thing? Getting my first epub to convert over to mobi and work in all the various kindles was such a total pain in the butt that I just didn't bother doing so with my second book, and quite frankly I don't know if I can be bothered in the future to design anything beyond plain ol' epubs -- just getting things to work in both ADE and iBooks is enough of a pain in the butt for me... but then, I'm not doing this for clients, and profits aren't my bottom line. I can understand that others out there are rather "stuck" with having to design for amazon...
Actually...it's not that bad. There may be 7 or 8 or 10 devices, but there are really only 1.2 formats, so to speak. KF7, KF8, and media-queries.

And why I don't bitch about Amazon is simple: they are still supporting the very first device they sold. They don't just shrug, turn their backs on customers with a first-gen Kindle, and say, "tough crap." If nothing else--say, John Doe buys a book that really isn't viable on a first-gen, due to some type of table formatting, etc.--there's a desktop reader, free, that he can use. Yes, iBooks for Mac exists NOW, but it didn't for YEARS. Amazon never really made that mistake, at least.

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...but like I said, whatever problems Apple/iBooks might have, at least it's not what I had to go through to get my book to work on all the various kindles.

In other words, it would seem that ALL device manufacturers should be shot! At least, all but one -- we can keep one, and just design for that one.
Well, your interest in formatting is certainly more...in-tune...with the type of display features that Apple's iBooks' app has. I can see why you would not like Amazon's set of available features.

I *do* agree that the "standards" issue is completely out of control now. There's no going back. Any idea of "standards" is utterly ruined. And for that--sorry--for that, we have to look directly to Apple. I've said my piece, and now it's really OT, so...fare-thee-well on this one. ;-)

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