Upload ebooks in HTML format - Page 3

netseeker · 03-01-2009, 02:49 PM

ProDigit, your first issue doesn't seem to be a "real" issue:
"Zip" itself isn't a compression format itself, Zip allows different compression formats to be used. Thats why sometimes incompatibilities can occur. Let's say we would use a zip-container with deflate as compression format then we wouldn't see any incompatibilities because deflate is specificied within RFC 1951 and widely used and accepted.

The other issue you mentioned - the hardware - seems to be another non-issue too:
ePub isn't much more than (X)HTML, images and some meta informations within a zip-container. If ePub does work on mobile reading devices then other (X)HTML-renderers using compressed (X)HTML would work too. And as Ea already pointed out there are some current reading devices which already do offer some kind of HTML-support out of the box.

RWood · 03-09-2009, 10:35 AM

The intent of the download section has always been that you could directly load the file into your reader. If Sony changes from LRF to XYZ, then we will produce XYZ files. As ePub gains footing and more and more readers support ePub directly we will host more and more ePub files at MR. Already there is a section for ePub. Some of the book creators (like me for example) have yet to make this addition to their format presentations. Others, like mtravellerh, have been offering ePub for some time.

Sweetpea · 03-09-2009, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by busybee

I agree with ProDigit's initial post and support HTML for archival and source purposes. EPub is a close second, but after converting an illustrated HTML book to EPub, adding ".zip" and unzipping it, I notice only that important elements of my original formatting had been lost, so I am not interested in collecting ebooks in EPub format (in effect converting common HTML into obscure XML). Since some 9,000 of Project Gutenberg's collection (in English) is already in HTML, and since HTML IS ubiquitous/universal (as distinct from EPub's putative should be, can be, will be), I don't see a better alternative at present to zipped HTML.

I've been busy with my library last weekend. I wanted to see if I could make an epub out of a HTML book (which is my source to format them to mobi which I use on my reader).

I finally ended up with a directory, which I can zip to create an epub, or I can use the .opf to create the mobi books. All the content I had in my original book I have in my epub book. I did have to change my HTML, as I used <a name"x"></a> for my TOC bookmarks. And epub doesn't allow that. So, I had to add those name="x" attributes to my header element. But, that's all I had to change. I didn't use XML, and I use only 1 HTML page for my content (not 1 page per chapter). The only thing epub wants is the directory structure and some meta files.

Now, I will need plenty of time to pour all my HTML files into the epub directory structure...

ProDigit · 03-09-2009, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I've been busy with my library last weekend. I wanted to see if I could make an epub out of a HTML book (which is my source to format them to mobi which I use on my reader).

I finally ended up with a directory, which I can zip to create an epub, or I can use the .opf to create the mobi books. All the content I had in my original book I have in my epub book. I did have to change my HTML, as I used <a name"x"></a> for my TOC bookmarks. And epub doesn't allow that. So, I had to add those name="x" attributes to my header element. But, that's all I had to change. I didn't use XML, and I use only 1 HTML page for my content (not 1 page per chapter). The only thing epub wants is the directory structure and some meta files.

Now, I will need plenty of time to pour all my HTML files into the epub directory structure...

How does Epub handle bookmarks and hyperlinks? (not <a name=x>x</a> or <a href='x'>x</a>?

Sweetpea · 03-10-2009, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ProDigit

How does Epub handle bookmarks and hyperlinks? (not <a name=x>x</a> or <a href='x'>x</a>?

You can still use <a href="#x">y</a> to point to <span id="x">x</span>. So, instead of putting a <a name="x"> around it, use a span with an id.

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03-01-2009, 02:49 PM	#31
netseeker sleepless reader Posts: 4,763 Karma: 615547 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Germany, near Stuttgart Device: Sony PRS-505, PB 360° & 302, nook wi-fi, Kindle 3	ProDigit, your first issue doesn't seem to be a "real" issue: "Zip" itself isn't a compression format itself, Zip allows different compression formats to be used. Thats why sometimes incompatibilities can occur. Let's say we would use a zip-container with deflate as compression format then we wouldn't see any incompatibilities because deflate is specificied within RFC 1951 and widely used and accepted. The other issue you mentioned - the hardware - seems to be another non-issue too: ePub isn't much more than (X)HTML, images and some meta informations within a zip-container. If ePub does work on mobile reading devices then other (X)HTML-renderers using compressed (X)HTML would work too. And as Ea already pointed out there are some current reading devices which already do offer some kind of HTML-support out of the box.

03-09-2009, 10:35 AM	#32
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	The intent of the download section has always been that you could directly load the file into your reader. If Sony changes from LRF to XYZ, then we will produce XYZ files. As ePub gains footing and more and more readers support ePub directly we will host more and more ePub files at MR. Already there is a section for ePub. Some of the book creators (like me for example) have yet to make this addition to their format presentations. Others, like mtravellerh, have been offering ePub for some time.