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Originally Posted by hobnail
What benefits are there from using the epub3 stuff; e.g., the epub:type? The fussy nerd in me wants to use that stuff but in practice I don't see any advantage, although I am making the container epub3 via the sigil setting for when starting a new book. And related to that, are you going to publish only on amazon, or also on Kobo and other places that use epub?
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Amazon strongly recommends it now. Strongly=their wording, not mine.
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Amazon strongly recommends marking footnotes with the HTML5 aside element, together with the epub:type attribute. This allows accessible reading systems to ignore the footnotes except when followed by their referents and allows any reading system to handle them more intelligently (e.g., as pop-ups). This usage ensures that even if the EPUB semantic is not recognized, the notes will still be treated as secondary content due the nature of the HTML5 aside element.
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And so on and so forth, p. 32 on the most recent guidelines.
FWIW.
Hitch