Could not start the epub checker2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() They are too wide and when they get reduced to fit the screen, they don’t display properly. Now for the most serious errors…The graphics that have text…NONE of them are readable on the 505. This makes for a lot of wasted space per page. They have spaces inbetween and no proper indents. I’ve taken a look at your ePub sample using my Sony Reader PRS-505 and I do have a few comments. Viewers for small-screened devices usually allow the reader to override this with their own settings. The paragraph formatting is a little odd… It looks like 0.44em of spacing between general text paragraphs? Most commercial e-books books tend to have print-like paragraph formatting, with no space between paragraphs and a line-height-or-so text-indent. If there isn’t going to be a real TOC the spec allows not having one, although actually having one is probably the better approach. The NCX table of contents contains no actual data. This means that (a) viewers cannot be expected to display them and (b) the file is invalid due to the lack of fallback items for the non-core-type images. People have already mentioned the missing required metadata, but this is a really big deal - there’s nothing in the file to identify it except for an auto-generated UUID.Īll the images in the file are either EPS or PDF, neither of which are OEBPS core media types. The non-diagram images were easy enough to see, but the diagrams were too small to read and (this is a Stanza thing) I wasn’t able to zoom in to see them more clearly. All of the images listed a Flickr source URL at the bottom and a broken image, both of which cluttered things up a bit. (The chapter heading at the beginning also had a weird line break right after “All About.”)ĭiagrams/images were a little more problematic. ![]() The headings weren’t separated from the body text, and they weren’t bold or anything, so it was hard to tell them apart from the body text. Also, near the end the “SM” wasn’t superscripted, but the “TM” was. Italics seemed to be lost, though (I’m not sure if there were any, but the references section didn’t have any on the book titles). The text turned out fairly nicely - em-dashes and quotes and the lists and everything came through just fine. ![]() Then I loaded it into Stanza on the iPhone and didn’t run into any errors there. (And thank to Ben Crowder too!) 18 Responses to “Help us test EPUB format?”įirst off, I tried loading it into Bookworm but got a bunch of errors (having to do with the title missing and such). Thanks to Chris Farnum, Liza Daley, and Diane Kenedy for letting us know (and deep apologies for the hassle). The link above will now get you an unzipped version. Lesson #1 of working with EPUB: DON’T ZIP AN EPUB FILE. Or, if for some reason we can’t swing EPUB, we’ll send it to you as a PDF. For your trouble, we’ll send you the EPUB version when it’s available. The test chapter is from Donna Spencer’s forthcoming book Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, which is due out in a few weeks. Send any screen shots you want to share to lou (at). Please download the file (about 4Mb), beat on it a bit, and post your comments here (please let us know what device you’re using). So we’ve taken a first crack at formatting a chapter-consider this an alpha-and would love for you EPUB fans to take a crack at trying it out on your favorite device. ![]() Many of you have expressed interest in the EPUB format, an open standard that can be read on iPhones and Sony Readers. Like just about every publisher, we’re grappling with working out our ebook publishing strategy. ![]()
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