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Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) is probably one of the most known American writers. He was immensely popular in his time, especially noted for his wit and humour, and he is still widely quoted nowadays.
"The Prince and the Pauper" was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States. In the last days of Henry VIII, the heir to the throne (future Edward VI) meets a poor boy who resembles him strikingly. As an entertainment they switch clothes... and then confusion arises. The pauper is taken as Prince, and the Prince is taken as pauper. Most of the book tells the "adventures" of the Prince among commong people, who treat him as the lowest member of society. Apart from the story, the book tries to depict ambience, customs, laws, etc. of 16th century England. There are almost 200 illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley and L. S. Ipsen, which accounts for the large filesize. The source of the text is PG, but the illustrations are re-extracted from the scans available at the Internet Archive, and they are cleaned up and enhanced; if I may say it myself, I think they look much better now. The text is proofread and corrected in some places, there is a TOC, a list of illustrations, hyperlinked notes, etc. This is my first try with an illustrated ePUB. [s]In the list of illustrations I've included all the illustrations themselves[/s], each of them with a link to the place where the illustration appears in the text. This book would be best read in a system supporting the "page-break-after" and "page-break-before" attributes (there are page breaks in the frontmatter, after each chapter title illustration and in the notes), does such a system exist? For those wanting to read this in a web browser, I upload an index.zip file: just unzip this and the .epub file in the same directory, and open index.html (and modify index.css if you like). All feedback is welcome. EDIT (v2): Two required elements were missing from the .ncx file. EDIT (v3): Modified the drop caps code to make it work with Adobe Digital Editions (and the Sony reader). EDIT (v4): Added embedded fonts for titles and drop caps. I hope it works! EDIT (v5): Updated to support the epub2pdf script. EDIT (v5.1): Fixed illustrator's metadata. EDIT (v6): Some small improvements in formatting. (previous dowload count: 1544) This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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Not bad - how did you build it?
-bjc This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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After the discussion in this thread, I modified the drop caps code to make it work with Adobe Digital Editions (and the Sony reader). Uploaded v3.
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I thought this was a good opportunity to try embedded fonts. They are used for the titles and drop caps, and I think they fit quite nicely. It's easy to disable them, just comment out the @import in the style.css file (you have to unpack and repack the epub).
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Does this code works on Mac OS-X? I have read that the sequence in which the files are zipped is important. I am also looking at automating the coding of the HTML, OPF and NCX files with php and mysql because my book has a very repetitive structure. Paul |
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Many thanks for the hard work, Jelby. Just downloaded the book in ePub to Calibre. Looking forward to the read. Very best. Neil
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Hi Jellby,
I have a Sony 350 reader, and I'm seeing the text in the <div class="header"> sections showing up on the screen on a line before the drop cap and the first paragraph in each chapter and section (contents, list of illustrations, notes, etc). I can take a picture if that would help describe the problem any better. I'm reasonably new to this ebook css stuff. What is the purpose of those <div class="header"> sections? It seems to duplicate the h1 info without being referenced anywhere. Cheers, Simon. |
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In other books I've used some trick to work around this Adobe problem, but I havent updated this book (yet). If it bothers you, you can edit the style.css file and replace "oeb-page-head" with "none". |
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Thanks for the explanation. The rest of the book looks so good visually I'll tweak my local copy.
Cheers, Simon. |
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Hi Jellby,
I read this book because of the recommendations in some of the technical sections of this forum about nice formatting. Well, to be honest, I was planning to look at a paragraph or three and not much more to check out the formatting. I haven't been a fan of the "classics" (too many scarred memories from high school) but did enjoy Zelda's epub of Three Men In A Boat. Well, I'm happy to say the first chapter hooked me in, and I surprised myself and totally enjoyed the book! The images looked superb and layout and formatting surpasses all of the commercial ebooks I've purchased. I did make some scribbles as I went, and your opening post says all feedback is welcome, so goes with some more:
I hope you don't take any of these negatives - they were only minor niggles and didn't take anything away at all from my enjoyment of the book. Cheers, Simon. |
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Good to know that of my "issues", some were Adobe bugs, some weren't even issues and the others (to do with links) are more user interface issues on the Sony than anything else. As I mentioned originally, none of these are really more than minor annoyances and didn't detract from the reading experience at all. Cheers, Simon. |
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Improved anchor placement for footnotes, page margins, header centering, and maybe something else. Uploaded v6.
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