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Originally Posted by JackTrade
The main problem I encountered is that while the current state of eBooks is good enough for text documents (say, War and Peace) it doesn’t work as well for media-heavy books. To clarify, take a look at this Web page about the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony no.1. It contains, besides text, images (snippets of the score) and audio clips (snippets from the movement). I wanted to create an eBook which would be able to replicate that and more. |
IMHO, it shouldn't be too difficult to convert that webpage to an epub. You'll find lots of examples on how to embed audio and video files in the following epub3 test file:
EPUBTEST 0100 - Reflowable Content Tests
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Originally Posted by JackTrade
It doesn’t have to “look like the web page”, but it does have to be able to, in addition to viewing the images and listening to the audio, give the reader the ability, if he so chooses, to view additional information either briefly (as in a tooltip), or more permanently (in the form of a popup box which can be later closed).
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IMHO, popup boxes aren't that user friendly and you can use several other methods to hide/unhide text. Here are two very simple examples:
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Without JavaScript (The example file hides/unhides lists, but the method will also work for other elements.)
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With JavaScript (The Local storage test page in the example file hides/unhides interlinear text, but the method works for any element.)