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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
That's nice. When's the epub version with real footnotes coming?
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I'll try to finish working on proper footnotes for ePub/Mobipocket during the first week of January. Right now I'm still changing a few other things on the website/API (I simplified the navigation of public domain titles recently).
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Creating ebooks is a labor of love combined with hard work and sometimes unavoidable sweat.
I would encourage every memeber here to try his or her hand at making Public domain/creative commons/legally licensed books available to the readers of MobileRead.
The beauty of assembling an ebook is that you (the assembler) can design and add to your heart's content, thus creating an ebook that is exactly the way you want it in terms of layout and perceived effectiveness.
Don
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Correct but I don't value the creation of an end-format version as much as a proper source. A TEI/DocBook/DTBook version is infinitely more valuable since you can pretty much create anything out of it. The reason why I can instantly turn inline footnotes to real footnotes in every ePub/Mobipocket file on Feedbooks the next time that I upgrade our system is because we properly mark them as such. A book produced with Book Designer on the other hand will probably have hyperlinks instead of a distinctive mark-up for footnotes.
The real value is in creating the structure of the book or using a proper mark-up for semantic elements such as footnotes (and in the case of the average public domain book, proper proofreading/typesetting).