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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Unless you plan on reading the same file on both recent and old devices, there is no point in using dual-MOBI, and it takes up extra space.
Also, metadata handling is wonky, since it has to be updated in both portions. calibre cannot handle it (probably because it almost never shows up, and no one has written the code).
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That's interesting. See, for an author/creator, you're going to make a dual-MOBI to submit to Amazon, and they'll split the file for you. And you're going to be putting in the metadata as you want it before you convert it. So what you're discussing is mainly from the viewpoint of an owner/customer, who bought a book and wants to convert it to another format and/or change the metadata (for whatever reason).
Makes total sense now, I just wasn't thinking with those sorts of things. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
When I tested my footnote test file with iBooks only epub:type="footnote" footnotes defined as asides in the same book worked. However, iBooks isn't fully ePub3-compatible and other apps have no problems with endnotes.
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Ah, I think I wasn't totally clear. When I had an ePub file with multiple XHTML files (one per chapter)
epub:type="footnote" hyperlinks that targeted
<aside> tags
that were
outside the source XHTML file (but within the same book) failed in iBooks (did not pull up anything when I tapped them). The target
<aside> had to be in the same XHTML file to work.
I wondered perhaps if that was intentional: if Apple wanted you to use
rearnote if your link was going outside the XHTML file to another one at the end of the book, but based on your comment I gather that
rearnote didn't work at all. Ah well.
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Originally Posted by fxp33
Thanks for your detailed reading and your questions.
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No problem
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Originally Posted by fxp33
Yes, I mean the software back button, after you click the "go to" in the footnote. I noticed that in one version of the files, it didn't go back to the beginning of the text, but instead, went back to the Home book list (out of the book then!). I found that strange.
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That's a bit concerning. So the back button works fine for a regular hyperlink, but if you do the pop-up, then go to the footnote via the popup, the back button doesn't work? Sounds like a bug to me. If that's repeatable, we should let someone at Amazon know.