Good information. Thank you. Yes I want to both make ebooks and to work with the underlying software and file formats. I'll look more closely at epub3. And at the Workshop sub-forum here.
Thank you! One of my main study techniques is to go to an existing forum and then to read through the last year or so of posts.
When I read ebooks with my Android tablet (with various readers) I find the experience lacking. I'd like to have an option to have the text flow around an always on top TOC. I'd like to see embedded images be expandable when ever possible (tap on the image and then see a large format HiRes version that temporarily overtakes the screen). And embedded video and hyperlinks that work. And have a way to offer supplementary background information in addition to chapters and pages 1...N
I'll have to study epub and epub3 (I should have done that first but I didn't know about epub3) because it's still not clear to me how much of this (lacking features) is due to file format limitations and how much is the result of the author not including available capabilities.
All of what I envision could be supported now by a web server Content Management System that produces pages that look and act like a book. That's a direction I'm currently working on too.
I'm also interested in writing an
http://lxml.de/ converter that, with a mouse click, could transform and epub3 into a website and then back again, from website back to epub3