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E-Books That Cut It: xun's Guide to EPUB Creation

Note: There is now (November 2024) a 2nd edition, restructured and updated with corrections, additional information, and adaptions to EPUB3. See https://archive.org/details/xun-e-books-that-cut-it-2nd-ed --------------- Note : This book was published as a well-formed EPUB; the other formats are derived from this one. Originally published January 4 2020, new version January 13 2020, updated January 14 with new appendix and edited Regex searches. From the introduction: What do you want from an e-book? You want it to be legible, easy to read , so there should no (or a minimum of) misspellings or OCR mistakes turning words into rubbish, and no bad line breaks. You want to be able to navigate the book , so there should be headings and a Table of Content that links to the different parts of the book. You want indications when the scene changes , by a blank line or some special characters, alerting you to move elsewhere in the perspective, space or time of the book world. You want to be able to tell utterances from running text , so there should be quotation marks, correctly and consistently applied, making it clear who says what. You want to be able to tell songs, poems, letter, telegram

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