Strategy to create faux tabbed ebook?

[pluma]

Hello,

I've noticed that index navigation is awfully slow and cumbersome. So a possible solution that I thought is to create some sort of inlined tabs that are clickable to make quick navigation between a few pages.

My idea is something like to common webpages menu links.

Is this a good idea in an epub? I noticed that footnotes is a huugee list at the end of the epubs.

This is a small example.

page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4 index to 5 and 6
page 5 index to 4 and 6
page 6 index to 6 and 4
page 7
page 8


I don't know how to solve this. Or have a special title that makes a popup menu with the navigation index.

Devices's navigation takes endless steps to travel around the doc.

The first problem I am seeing is to work around the touch areas of devices. Or perhaps it's possible to tell the device to clear those screen areas from devices touch buttons.

thanks.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by pluma

Hello,

I've noticed that index navigation is awfully slow and cumbersome. So a possible solution that I thought is to create some sort of inlined tabs that are clickable to make quick navigation between a few pages.

My idea is something like to common webpages menu links.

Is this a good idea in an epub? I noticed that footnotes is a huugee list at the end of the epubs.

This is a small example.

page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4 index to 5 and 6
page 5 index to 4 and 6
page 6 index to 6 and 4
page 7
page 8


I don't know how to solve this. Or have a special title that makes a popup menu with the navigation index.

Devices's navigation takes endless steps to travel around the doc.

The first problem I am seeing is to work around the touch areas of devices. Or perhaps it's possible to tell the device to clear those screen areas from devices touch buttons.

thanks.

I don't understand what you mean. Can you give a better example of what you're thinking? What I see seems to indicate that, what, you're planning to put links, to other pages...I don't understand what you're proposing.

Hithc

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by pluma

I've noticed that index navigation is awfully slow and cumbersome. So a possible solution that I thought is to create some sort of inlined tabs that are clickable to make quick navigation between a few pages.

If you use the proper footnote attributes in epub3 books many, though not all, epub3 apps will display them as popup footnotes.
For example, if you target iPads this is more or less a non-issue.

[Hitch]

Doits?

You think s/he is discussing footnotes? Crap, I didn't get that impression at all. I thought he was talking abotu essentially NOT having to click "go to" or "toc," to then browse to {whatever is desired}. I don't know that I understand the cumbersome issue, but..

Alrighty. I'll shaddup now.

Hitch

[JSWolf]

I get what's being asked. Some websites have a menu on the left side of the screen to allow quick navigation. The OP wants to have a menu on the left side of the screen for quick navigation in an ePub eBook.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I get what's being asked. Some websites have a menu on the left side of the screen to allow quick navigation. The OP wants to have a menu on the left side of the screen for quick navigation in an ePub eBook.

That's what I thought. Ok, so this one is easy.

No.

Hitch