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kome17 · 09-01-2009, 04:09 AM

Hello to everyone, I m very new to MobilerRead and e-reading, I am really excited to get into this e-reading world with all you guys, it seems so much fun and making the world bigger and more interesting!

The first thing I thought of is to have my bible in my device. (Oh, I got a Cybook) And through searching and reading threads here, I think epub is the ideal format I would want to read my bible. Finally I get to this thread and trying to make myself a epub bible.

I download Ted's "Bible_KJV_htmlA.zip" and unzip it, putting the NewTestA.htm into Calibre and output it as epub. Yet, the link in the bible seems not working good. It direct me to wrong chapter.

Then I return to this thread and read again the detailed "making of" of the epub bible by sherman...I am now quite lost when I find out the epub is actually very complicated work for me (not a programming guy do me)

I tried to open and read the source of the htm file and starting wondering what's inside, and what can I do to make the links work well in a epub format.

I have a lot of questions:
1. How and where should I look for those heading and how to change and what to change it in to //h2??

2. Where is the pagebreak? what do you mean by "wrapping", how is it wrapped in the htm file?

3. Where is the table of content? Is it in the htm file? Where/How should I notice it and know whether it is probably working when it is in epub?

4. I heard of metadata, what is it? And how is it different from TOC?

I am really green to the e-books composing and all the techy things involved, but I really want to kick-it-off to learn and practice and start rolling here and over.

Sorry guys, it feel like i shouldn't raise this questions as a newbie in this thread. But this is the post which aroused my interest (the bible) into the making of ebook. Sorry again as I really want to raise my questions and know better from you guys here.

Lastly, as green as I am to the techy composing of epub, do you have any suggestion that I should go ahead and learn quickly for knowledge (such as reading htm file)?
I only know very little html stuff, like bolding, italic a sentence in "[]b []/b, []i []/i...."

Thanks for everyone who read my post.

09-01-2009, 04:09 AM	#6
kome17 kome Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hong Kong Device: Cybook	Hello to everyone, I m very new to MobilerRead and e-reading, I am really excited to get into this e-reading world with all you guys, it seems so much fun and making the world bigger and more interesting! The first thing I thought of is to have my bible in my device. (Oh, I got a Cybook) And through searching and reading threads here, I think epub is the ideal format I would want to read my bible. Finally I get to this thread and trying to make myself a epub bible. I download Ted's "Bible_KJV_htmlA.zip" and unzip it, putting the NewTestA.htm into Calibre and output it as epub. Yet, the link in the bible seems not working good. It direct me to wrong chapter. Then I return to this thread and read again the detailed "making of" of the epub bible by sherman...I am now quite lost when I find out the epub is actually very complicated work for me (not a programming guy do me) I tried to open and read the source of the htm file and starting wondering what's inside, and what can I do to make the links work well in a epub format. I have a lot of questions: 1. How and where should I look for those heading and how to change and what to change it in to //h2?? 2. Where is the pagebreak? what do you mean by "wrapping", how is it wrapped in the htm file? 3. Where is the table of content? Is it in the htm file? Where/How should I notice it and know whether it is probably working when it is in epub? 4. I heard of metadata, what is it? And how is it different from TOC? I am really green to the e-books composing and all the techy things involved, but I really want to kick-it-off to learn and practice and start rolling here and over. Sorry guys, it feel like i shouldn't raise this questions as a newbie in this thread. But this is the post which aroused my interest (the bible) into the making of ebook. Sorry again as I really want to raise my questions and know better from you guys here. Lastly, as green as I am to the techy composing of epub, do you have any suggestion that I should go ahead and learn quickly for knowledge (such as reading htm file)? I only know very little html stuff, like bolding, italic a sentence in "[]b []/b, []i []/i...." Thanks for everyone who read my post. Last edited by kome17; 09-01-2009 at 04:14 AM.