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Old 04-17-2020, 06:24 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by mazdaspeed View Post
Quite honestly, I've gotten a great deal of mileage from MobileRead and I've never posted. My project is a version of the Holy Scriptures edited from a mid-1500's, Spanish manuscript.

I'm volunteering for the non-profit publisher that previously had this Bible ePublished on Amazon and various other platforms, until it was recently recalled from the sub-contracted, for profit, publisher.

The intention is to now re-publish and distribute the Spanish and English versions, free-of-cost. The InDesign files were obtained for the print layout, but no ePublished files were obtained, and that's where I come in.

I've done an InDesign EPUB export that actually came out in a very workable fashion, and I've now have some really clean html5 and a reworked CSS stripped of InDesign's signature mess.

Considering I've never done more than use Calibre on a few occasions to convert some PDFs to mobi, I'm feeling pretty good about this project. I have a working, 3-level, internal TOC with crosslinking of all books and chapters, and it even passes the EPUB validator at http://validator.idpf.org/.

What I'm here for at this time is to figure out if it's possible to exclude the Dictionary and Concordance from being searched by any given eReader's search engine. I would like to think there is a way to use a <div> to flag sections to NOT be searched.

Any advice or feedback would be welcomed.
No. I mean, I can sit here and blather on, but the answer is, quite simply, NO.

For the same reason that "choose your own adventure" books can't limit where the readers go, or stop people from peeking at answers in the back, etc. You cannot hand over what is basically a 1990's website to someone and then try to use programmatic limitations in an environment that doesn't support those.

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