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Originally Posted by Turtle91
MR's Wiki has a bunch of mini-tuts about eBooks and ePublishing.
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I'll have to look through those again, I haven't done that in a looong time.
A lot of the "How to Make An Ebook" stuff was written many years ago, and much of that information is a bit out of date. (Like Liz Castro's ol' ebook/website.)
Of course, the core, KISS + basic HTML stuff is all correct.
... but a lot of the surrounding EPUB-specific info may need updating. They'll be discussing:
- older tools
- ancient versions of Sigil/Calibre
- ancient hacks/workarounds
- Like remember those empty <span></span> around everything to get around stupid iBooks bugs?
- ancient formats
- Like Amazon's old, old MOBI on the original Kindle.
- (Everything beyond the Kindle 3 uses KF8 or KFX now.)
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And they may be missing newer EPUB3 stuff. Or not discussing the tweaks/enhancements/tools that have come over the years like:
- Much easier Font Embedding/Subsetting
- Now it's easily built right into Calibre!
- All the Accessibility stuff
- Sigil/Calibre Plugins!
There's better/faster workflows out there, but much of this information is scattered.
Eventually, my blog will be up and running and all this stuff will be gathered to the best of my ability (I KNOW I KNOW, lol).
But for now, all this stuff is spread in separate MR threads.
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Usually, if you have ANY sort of issue in ebooks, you can do search this in your favorite search engine:
Code:
Your Problem Here Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
Your Problem Here Hitch site:mobileread.com
and you'll find your answer.
Have a problem with "<ol> lists"? Type in:
<ol> lists tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
And boom,
here's one of my answers from 2019. (Don't use <ol> in EPUB, very buggy. Hardcode your numbers.)
Have a problem with "soft hyphens"? Type in:
soft hyphens tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
32 hits over the years. (I even wrote
another post all about why soft hyphens are awful a few days ago.)
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If you can't find it with mine or Hitch's username in your search? (Not very likely!) THEN you can do a general search across the internet... but all the coolest ebook people are here!
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Of course, you always have the great people here at MR that can help... you'll get some great advice as well as a little opinion thrown in to spice things up!  |
A few months back, I actually hopped on webcam and did an "EPUB crash course" with anonlivros (he wrote that
great Paper Book -> PDF Tutorial).
It was the first time I ever TAUGHT someone else live.
And, since his PDF tutorial was so good, I wanted to get him up to speed on the PDF->EPUB side of things.
Many tips/tricks were methods I've been using for 8+ years, but never actually spoke to anyone else.
Definitely made me think differently too, and I even came up with newer methods on the fly as I tried to reexplain things to him (since he was an EPUB noob).
... and you guys have secretly been seeing a lot of that in my posts within the past 5 months.
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Anyway, that's why I offered katknott (or anyone else who's interested) the webcam thing.
I could take a look at that document and see what I can do. Or how I'd tackle it.
And then I could even show you Sigil/Calibre, explain the basics of EPUB, answer any questions, etc.
Eventually, this info will be solidified on my site... and it'll be the ultimate EPUB resource.