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grNadpa · 02-03-2022, 09:09 AM

I'd like your thoughts on my page-breaking strategy and how best to verify the result.

My understanding is that page breaks (per se) are not a feature of e-books. (Seemingly confirmed by AoiHana's 10-13-2020 post entitled "reliable picture layout ...".)

But following Hitch's suggestion to use the Kindle viewer (thank you again!), I find that my heavily illustrated instruction manual breaks pages in rather inconvenient places. Since I am reconstructing my hard-copy book into xml-xhml and css format, I'm considering rendering each page break as its own .xhtml file -- with the thought that I can edit the toc to contain only the true chapters.

I'm encouraged by gmw 05-15-17 post entitled "lots of short chapters" that this multi-file strategy may not be as bizarre an idea as I first thought.

If it is worth a shot, the second part of my question is how to concatenate the multiple files for loading into the Kindle viewer. I really don't relish the days it will take to create a full-blown e-book before I know whether the strategy does what I hope.

02-03-2022, 09:09 AM	#1
grNadpa Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Chicago metro area Device: none	Psuedo-chapters as page breaks I'd like your thoughts on my page-breaking strategy and how best to verify the result. My understanding is that page breaks (per se) are not a feature of e-books. (Seemingly confirmed by AoiHana's 10-13-2020 post entitled "reliable picture layout ...".) But following Hitch's suggestion to use the Kindle viewer (thank you again!), I find that my heavily illustrated instruction manual breaks pages in rather inconvenient places. Since I am reconstructing my hard-copy book into xml-xhml and css format, I'm considering rendering each page break as its own .xhtml file -- with the thought that I can edit the toc to contain only the true chapters. I'm encouraged by gmw 05-15-17 post entitled "lots of short chapters" that this multi-file strategy may not be as bizarre an idea as I first thought. If it is worth a shot, the second part of my question is how to concatenate the multiple files for loading into the Kindle viewer. I really don't relish the days it will take to create a full-blown e-book before I know whether the strategy does what I hope.