02-07-2019, 02:30 AM | #1 |
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'see page' referrence problem in ebook
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i have a client that wants his print book reference the same on ebook format. the print book have this (see pages 347-349) and so on. Now, he wants the same on ebook format. is this possible or are there any alternative? and how should i explain this to him. thanks! |
02-07-2019, 03:16 AM | #2 |
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Moved to Workshop forum. This is not a calibre specific issue, and you should get a wider cross-section of expert opinion in that forum. BR |
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02-07-2019, 03:22 AM | #3 |
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And don't post the same thing in multiple places (Calibre and Sigil) - Read the Guidelines, there's a link at the bottom of every page
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02-07-2019, 11:45 AM | #4 |
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any help?
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02-07-2019, 12:17 PM | #5 |
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In our wiki, see Page numbers for the issues and some solutions. If you just want the page references to work as a link you can call them any page number or text that you want and then make the link go to the right page where the text is.
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02-07-2019, 01:33 PM | #6 | |
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That's pretty much the only way to do it. I certainly hope you discussed this, and the vast amount of extra work to do it, and included that in your pricing, upfront. Hitch |
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02-07-2019, 02:02 PM | #7 |
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You could also try explaining that any half decent e reader has this thing called search built in, which obviates the need for an old school painstakingly hand compiled and error prone index anyway.
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do you suggest that we remove the (see pages) words/reference from the print for the ebook conversion or just leave it? because i think that will confuse readers.
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There are solutions--it all depends on how much money your client is willing to pay you to implement them. The one piece of advice I'll give you is, don't do that for free, unless you including this sort of linking in your base quote without realizing just how much work it was going to be. If your client is like most publishers, s/he will decide that it's not worth "perfectly" linking all the "See page X" incidences. I don't see any reason to remove the "See page X" elements; in my business, we do link those. As I stated, we link them to the same place that InDesign or Word creates those links--the first position at the first line at the top of the page that contains the element to which the author is pointing, so the reader may have to skim a bit to find it, but...it's an imperfect world, right? Hitch |
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02-10-2019, 10:27 AM | #10 |
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I have no particular problem, as a reader, with "See page X" hyperlinks in an ebook taking me to a location that's not actually labelled as "Page X" in the ebook. I think most regular ebook readers recognise that page numbers are rather a moveable feast.
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02-10-2019, 08:09 PM | #12 |
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I try to link to the actual information if known when I put in links. It makes the eBook even better than the paper book.
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