Html Ebook Download Pdf Free
Achmat Das
There are many JS libraries available that can create a "slide show" or "carrousel" of pre-defined slides (using divs or other container elements). But I want the text and html content to dynamically re-flow to fit any device viewport and still be readable... just like an epub/ebook user interface, like the Kindle app or iBooks. So, for the same article, there would be many more "pages" on a phone than there would be on a tablet or desktop viewport, and those "pages" would need to be dynamically created/adjusted if/when the viewport size changes (like switching from portrait to landscape on a mobile device).
I realize that I could use a conversion script to convert my html page into an .epub file, and then use epub.js to render that file within the browser, but that seems very round-about and clunky. It would be so much better to mimic or simulate the .epub reader user experience with html as the direct source, rendering/mimicking a client side responsive ebook user experience.
This becomes very difficult if the html page is complex, eg with precisely positioned elements or images. However if (as in the epub.js example) the content consists only of headings and paragraphs, it is achievable.
(c) Take the site map or index or whatever page that does the best listing of what's in the web. Copy it, naming it "Table Of Contents". Edit it and change title to Table Of Contents. Change (or make one if there is none) the first header to h1>Table Of Contents. If needed, make your additions to the links in this file. ( I am assuming this file is the parent to all links. If other files refer back to this file, see if you can just use the original parent file without changing its file name as the "Table Of Contents" file. Just change its html title and header and see what happens.)
You can get help on any individual feature of the converters by mousing overit in the GUI or running ebook-convert dummy.html .epub -h at a terminal.A good place to start is to look at the following demo file that demonstratessome of the advanced features html-demo.zip.
This happens because of an Amazon bug. They try to download a cover for thebook from their servers and when that fails, they replace the existing coverthat calibre created with a generic cover. For details see this forum thread. As of version4.17, calibre has a workaround, where if you connect the Kindle to calibreafter the covers have been destroyed by Amazon, calibre will restore themautomatically. So in order to see the covers on your Kindle, you have to:
My question is not how to convert a single HTML file into an EPUB file, as this is easy; what I mean is, I have some books I want to read on my Sony PRS-505 and these books are most often online in HTML format but withmany interlinked pages and there is one page with the list of contents, like this example -Contents.html
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DOC is a document file format that is directly supported by few ebook readers. Its advantages as an ebook format is that it can be easily converted to other ebook formats and it can be reflowed. It can be easily edited using Microsoft software, and any of several other programs. Note that the format has changed several times since its original release, and there are numerous incompatibility difficulties between various releases and the assorted programs which attempt to read / write the format.
DOCX is a document file format that is directly supported by few ebook readers. Its advantages as an ebook format are that it can be easily converted to other ebook formats and it can be reflowed. It can be easily edited.
The FictionBook format does not specify the appearance of a document; instead, it describes its structure and semantics. All the ebook metadata, such as the author name, title, and publisher, is also present in the ebook file. Hence the format is convenient for automatic processing, indexing, and ebook collection management. This also is convenient to store books in it for later automatic conversion into other formats.
The .ibooks format is created with the free iBooks Author ebook layout software from Apple Inc. This proprietary format is based on the EPUB standard, with some differences in the CSS tags used in an ibooks format file, this making it incompatible with the EPUB specification. The End-User Licensing Agreement (EULA) included with iBooks Author states that "If you want to charge a fee for a work that includes files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author, you may only sell or distribute such work through Apple". The "through Apple" will typically be in the Apple Apple Books store. The EULA further states that "This restriction does not apply to the content of such works when distributed in a form that does not include files in the .ibooks format." Therefore, Apple has not included distribution restrictions in the iBooks Author EULA for ibooks format ebooks created in iBooks Author that are made available for free, and it does not prevent authors from re-purposing the content in other ebook formats to be sold outside the iBookstore. This software currently supports import and export functionally for three formats. ibook, Plain text and PDF. Versions 2.3 and later of iBooks Author support importing EPUB and exporting EPUB 3.0.[13]
Because the ebooks bought on the Kindle are delivered over its wireless system called Whispernet, the user does not see the AZW files during the download process. The Kindle format is available on a variety of platforms, such as through the Kindle app for the various mobile device platforms.
In August 2011, Microsoft announced they were discontinuing both Microsoft Reader and the use of the .lit format for ebooks[18] at the end of August 2012, and ending sales of the format on November 8, 2011.[19]
A multimedia ebook is media and book content that utilizes a combination of different book content formats. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content formats) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content formats.
The "multimedia ebook" term is used in contrast to media which only utilize traditional forms of printed or text books. Multimedia ebooks include a combination of text, audio, images, video, or interactive content formats. Much like how a traditional book can contain images to help the text tell a story, a multimedia ebook can contain other elements not formerly possible to help tell the story.
Rich Text Format is a document file format that is supported by many ebook readers. Its advantages as an ebook format are that it is widely supported, and it can be reflowed. It can be easily edited. It can be easily converted to other ebook formats, increasing its support.
Interesting perspective, Eoin. Leave it to someone with a professional publishing background to appreciate the integrity of a printed page. :) I admit, my perspective is somewhat skewed because the novel my wife and I wrote was born digital and has yet to grace a printed book page (I'm working on it, though print formatting is so much more difficult than ebook formatting!).
Great to finally meet you at DGW!
I really think you are making a definite mistake in presuming the epub format is a better one for ebooks going forward than pdf. Look at it from the point of view of a previous publisher of paper books:
pros of pdf
1. Whatever software you are used to using will be convertible to pdf and you will be very familiar with the quirks etc of pdf creation because that is the publishing standard. The online converter to epub, or indeed the one you can use as a desktop programme, dosen't seem as quick or as exact as the mature pdf converting technology.
2. It can handle all the various elaborate formatting that you put into your book, whereas epub seems to be less exact and loses a lot of formatting.
3. As has been pointed out you get to keep page numbers, which are good things! It makes the table of contents useful and gives you an index, which is pretty essential for areas like history and a proper index is definitely better than what you can get by doing a search of an epub. Page numbers can also be used in your book internally too to refer to different parts of your book, inpossible then in epub.
4. You get to use downloadable softfonts i.e. fonts encoded in the pdf. I suspect that this is a major issue for international users, even Irish users because I had to strip out of my smashword books the old Irish script that I think looks very well in the paper book.
Cons for pdf
If formatted to a given page size, say the portrait size for the iphone, then it will not scroll properly when viewed in landscape size on that phone.
Pros for epub
The only advantage that it has over pdf, as far as I know, is that scrollable capacity that is unavailble in pdf.
On every other front its defeated hands down by pdf? That problem could be solved too by just formatting, and making available for sale, two pdfs for each purchaser of the book on the iphone or ipad platform, one formatted for portrait view and the other for landscape view and the purchaser can use whichever one he likes. Of course he cannot change the orientation of the phone while viewing the book but I dont think most readers like to anyway, it gets annoying when you are engrossed in a book and the screen suddenly changes on you, I think most serious readers turn that facility off anyhow.
I have converted 4 books for epub, which previously were well formatted in pdf, - maybe its just me! - but I thought it was quite time consuming and the finished work is unlikely to look as good as the pdf? Whereas formatting to a pdf for various sizes of book, including formatting for the small size of some readers, is very easy and quick. I really suspect that you will find that international users, and publishers of non fiction books with elaborate formatting, will thank you a lot if you push the pdf standard more?
Particularly, if you allow them to create a pdf seperately, without going through the stripped down formatting that is necessary for the other formats, and just ask people to make seperate pdfs with different sizes corresponding to the dimensions of the various devices, and, as pointed out, supplying a portrait and a landscape pdf for those devices that allow you to change the orientation. That might seem like a lot of work for publishers but I would definitely bet that most of them would be able to do that far quicker than stripping the formatting to get an epub file.
Just a thought anyways and keep up the good work!
Brian Nugent