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A standard format for ebooks defined by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)

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i have two versions of the same book a EPUB version a HOCR version created by tesseract from scanned images (TIFF files) problem: tesseract makes many mistakes when recognizing text for example ü is ...
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I'm very new to EPUB creation as a whole. I have been using Sigil, EPUB3, and Apple Books to test my EPUB. In my EPUB, I have a separate footnotes chapter at the end of the book with all footnotes and ...
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Can I set hyperlinks to edits in other books from within books (browsed, for instance, in Google Play books, with or without payment made to the section of the other, book Thanks.
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I've written a book in Word 2019 on Windows using a template I created myself with some custom styles based on existing ones. For example, I used the modified Heading 2 style and called it Internal ...
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In an eReader where you can specify font size, the length of a "page" changes. I'm brand new to all this and am editing (with Calibre and/or VS Code) a dynamically converted ePub file ...
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I’ve published a bilingual novel, Love in Crisis, in English and Persian via Draft2Digital (D2D). The EPUBs are distributed to Apple Books and other vendors. Here’s the Persian (RTL) version: Apple ...
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I'd like to add metadata about the app version and media overlay creation datetime from an app that allows to add audio files + media overlay data on an existing epub. So purely private metadata, not ...
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Some effective strategies to enhance the readability of ebooks using CSS: 1. Use Relative Units Utilize relative units like em or percentages for font sizes and spacing. This allows the text to scale ...
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Apparently there is no plugin for Calibre to convert the epub3 into images which would keep the flow of text seen in the reader. Therefore, I've tried to print the epub, but it does not work either. ...
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I am using the Cantook ebook reader (formerly Aldiko) on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8. Most of the epub files I have will open just fine; however, I’m getting an error with one file that I can’t get around:...
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EPUB3 standard states that The dc:contributor element [dcterms] is used to represent the name of a person, organization, etc. that played a secondary role in the creation of the content. Then, both ...
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I have a large collection of epub books. I’m trying to make a few changes using a package called Magic (derived from Sigil), but I’ve discovered that it won’t open some books. It seems that some of ...
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EPUB & PagePerfect™ eBooks are the standard format for eBooks in the NOOK store. According to the accepted answer here: When someone asks me what GUI to use I suggest Sigil. I find that Sigil, ...
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When I open an EPUB file, a JSON file is created in ~/.config/calibre/viewer/annots/ with information such as last position, highlights/annotations etc. However, if I delete the JSON files from viewer/...
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When I was a student, for each academic subject, there were several academic journals which you could subscribe to, and, the publications were searchable on terminals and made available in paper ...
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I have written a small booklet. It will be used in an upcoming event, and I want the leaders to get an advanced epub copy. I would like to attach this to my organizations html website. It would be ...
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I am trying to create an ebook with about 1300 chapters. The content itself is not that large (~7MB of raw text), but they are broken down over 1300 chapters or so. Each chapter is about 20-40 short ...
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I have copied my entire library of my Kobo Libra reader to my hard drive and used kepubify to convert all the regular epubs to the kepub format (specifically the command kepubify-windows-64bit.exe --...
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I have several epub and mobi ebooks on my Andriod phone. The Kindle app finds about half of them. I went to settings->local file access and unchecked and rechecked each folder where the ebooks are ...
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In the Pages program, there is an option to link paragraphs or any blocks of text to each other. This is needed, for example, so that a title is carried to the next page with the main text, rather ...
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Kindle Create has a new feature called "image bleed". It extends an image past the left and right margins by placing it on the edge. I'm wondering how to reproduce it, is there a way to ...
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I have an epub file which weighs 5.4 MB, and I looked at the files inside using Calibre's "Edit Ebook" feature. I noticed the following weird thing: among the files inside the ebook are two ....
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I am working, not to say struggling, with an EPUB3 book exported from InDesign 2023. The dedication page looks like this in Sigil: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!...
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In Calibre, I went in the editor and edited an EPUB and everything is fine; even sent the updated book to my Kindle and the updates are there. When I convert to PDF in Calibre and save to disk the ...
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I've converted a DOCX file to the EPUB format using some online converter. It looks like the conversion was performed using the Calible behind the scenes. However this EPUB file is barely visible on ...
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I've started working on a "choose your own adventure" book, for which it seems epub is well-suited. The choice at the end of a section are mere href links to the sections that are the ...
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I am trying to create an epub book. The book includes svg. I have previewed the book in kindle preview and it displays correctly. But when I open it in kindle app on Mac and iPad the display is all ...
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I have an epub I've hand coded that looks great in Kindle Previewer, iBooks, and Kindle Reader for iPad, and physical Kindles. However, on iPhone, it is gettting rid of the CSS formatting I've ...
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I have a fixed-layout EPUB. Each page is a PNG. The <manifest> is structured like: <item id="page_1" href="page_1.xhtml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" /> ...
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Having issues with ebooks, some new ones, and some that worked perfectly before (about a week ago). In the text sections throughout the book, I see either and only "☒" or "_☒". All ...
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The built-in access to Wikipedia on the Kindle is lacklustre at best. Even if it were out of date, might "the" Wikipedia be available as an epub for download? Or, perhaps that's such an ...
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Which is best for converting DOCX to EPUB? Pandoc, LibreOffice, or Calibre?
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I use Kobo Glo HD for ePub, it has problem displaying Arabic characters in library list and in the book's footer, they appear boxes, I tried many fonts; Dubai, Rashiq, publisher default fonts, etc. ...
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Hello I am packaging an epub book and I'm seeing numbers that aren't in my source on kobo. It looks like they're being added by kobo. They don't show up on Calibre or apple books.app or on kindle. ...
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I have been lookinɡ for an free online docx or doc to epub converter, thouɡh somethinɡ always seems to be somethinɡ a bit weird about the converters [not havinɡ imaɡes after conversion, addinɡ extra ...
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I am planning to write a book. I will be using LibreOffice writer for that. After completing the work I will make a pdf file and import it in kindle. But what I want to know before hand is the number ...
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I am publishing an eBook with source code, and I want to use an Emigre typeface to improve readability on phone devices. It's bundled with Creative Cloud so I have created an ePub test. Fonts working:...
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I have a Kobo H2O Aura ebook reader. It uses the getpocket application: I send the link of a web article from my registered e-mail address to a central getpocket address, and when I turn on my ebook ...
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How do I access developer tools in iBooks on macOS12 (Monterey)? We have epubs with multiple-choice questions, and we use Javascript to make them interactive (i.e. click on an option, see if you're ...
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Below is error am facing when loading epub file in pagina EPUB checker. EPUBCheck aborted! The system lacks sufficient memory! Make sure that Java is installed as 64bit application. Error code: 99 ...
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Is there a way to convert all of the SVG images in an EPUB file into PNG images? I want to do this because few EPUB readers have full support for SVG (most readers only implement a subset of SVG).
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Essentially, what happens is that when I convert from epub 2 epub 3 using pandoc by using the following line: pandoc input_file.epub -t epub3 -o documents/input_file.epub I get the version changed ...
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I am trying to develop a file in EPUB format in Persian (Farsi) language based on the Amazon's file creation standards. Could you kindly suggest what software I need to use for this purpose? I have ...
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I have an epub 3 that I want to be backwards compatible for older e-readers that expect an epub 2. My table of contents is rendered in a toc.xhtml, as expected by an epub 3. In addition, I have an ....
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Here is the error Draft2Digital is giving me when I upload my epub file: ERROR(RSC-005): .tmp.tmpxl0rfcuu.epub/index_split_014.html(85,203): Error while parsing file: attribute "data-docx-vert&...
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Can someone please suggest a way to convert the pdf of a book which is collection of photos of the book into a clear pdf/epub. I have attached a sample page for your reference, and pages like these ...
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What is the current or preferred file type to convert an epub to for a kindle? Assuming paperwhite, or similar relatively recent model. My kindle has backlight but isn't waterproof like the ...
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I'm currently building epubs by hand (ok, I do cheat and use Calibre's epub editor from time to time). And through some curse from a dying sorcerer everything I'm doing is: One of a series/trilogy/...
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I am trying to create an ebook with a media overlay (read aloud feature). Once created, I would like to use the ebook to play audio and highlight the text in the book at the appropriate time in the ...
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I've created an ePUB with fonts exported so that when viewed on "Original" (eg in iBooks), you see the same font as the paperback edition of the book. But if you change the font in iBooks (...
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