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ePub format? #25

Closed moltar closed 5 years ago

moltar commented 5 years ago

Any chance on releasing this as ePub also? PDF is good for printing, but not very friendly for readers. Thanks.

semioticrobotic commented 5 years ago

I agree completely, @moltar, that an ePub version would be extremely useful. At the moment, however, we don't have resources available to produce one. In the past, intrepid community members have used the resources in this repository to create and contribute their own. I will gladly review pull requests pertaining to this.

moltar commented 5 years ago

@semioticrobotic Thanks, Bryan. Do you have any pointers and/or examples of previous solutions that you've mentioned?

semioticrobotic commented 5 years ago

Absolutely, @moltar. You might check out the repo for the now out-of-print Catalyst-In-Chief, which contains a community-produced ePub.

moltar commented 5 years ago

@romainsc any tips on how you converted ODT to ePub? Or is it purely a manual process? Thanks.

moltar commented 5 years ago

I think ODT -> HTML -> ePub might work. Haven't tried that yet though.

coevolving commented 5 years ago

On converting ODT to ePub (and to LaTeX), I can speak from experience. The text will translate relatively easily. What takes time is the recoding of images (I had created ODG as vector graphics), footnotes links, and citations to the reference list (that I had created in Zotero).

I first converted ODT to LaTeX, using Writer 2 LaTeX. Editing in TexStudio (leading a 670-page document, including a 390+ page appendix, 64 figures as PDF, 34 tables, 1051 footnotes) took me 2 months.

I then converted from ODT to ePub3 in Sigil (with figures as SVG). This took 2 months.

You can see the results as an open access book, Open Innovation Learning: Theory building on open soucing while private sourcing. On that page, you'll see notes that ePub3 readers have not uniformly implemented the standard, so fidelity will depend on the reader software chosen.

semioticrobotic commented 5 years ago

Images in this book are minimal—though they are present. I do know that LibreOffice now offers native ePub export, but I haven't had time to experiment with it. Perhaps one way to begin addressing this might be to export the book's source as ePub and open the resulting file in Sigil to see what you've got?

semioticrobotic commented 5 years ago

We now offer an officially supported ePub format!