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iBooks: Requested Resource Could Not Be Found
I've just completed a new ePub of a friend's role-playing game manual, and have finished doing testing on my Kobo and on Google Play Books. The ePub passes the built-in checks in Sigil and Calibre and ePubCheck passes it as well. As far as I can see, it has no problems.
However, iBooks refuses to open it. It tells me that "Failed to load book because the requested resource is missing." As far as I'm aware, the book shouldn't be requesting any resources or trying to access anything outside itself. Is anybody familiar with this error? Last edited by Rand Brittain; 10-25-2020 at 05:45 PM. Reason: give exact error message |
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Did you upload an epub2 to Smashwords for Distribution (includes Apple) and actually download from Apple or try to copy the book directly?
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look inside the META-INF folder for some calibre bookmark files and delete those
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You can change the Calibre settings so it doesn't put stuff from the viewer into the ebook file.
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…I've had this setting on for years. Seriously, why doesn't Calibre store its bookmarks somewhere else by default? |
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Try epub2. If you need something epub3 does, that epub2 doesn't do, then perhaps you need a PDF or an app. |
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Hm, I don't really want to go back to EPUB2 because I'm using the <aside> tag to do footnotes.
At one point I thought it might be a cache error with my cloud, but it looks like other people are having the same problem with the file when I send it to testers? I'm really confused as to why Books is having an error with a file that passes every possible form of validation. Does anybody want to take a look at it and see if they can spot the problem? |
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Do you have the ibooks xml file in your epub3 file set? IIRC, com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml is the file name. I remember needing it when embedding fonts but have been told it is needed for other items as well.
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Yeah, it's copied over straight from all my other EPUB files that work perfectly normally on Books. I have to have it to make the embedded files work properly. |
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Don't do footnotes with <aside>Don't do footnotes with link to an anchor. Have 1:1 relationship, so if a footnote is referenced 3x then repeat it 3 times. Have an anchor where you put the footnote link and link the footnote back to it.
Works on EVERY epub2 platform and also on ALL Kindles if the same epub2 is uploaded to Amazon KDP. Might not look as pretty, but works. For very short footnotes and paragraphs not too big, then right justify the note* inline just after the paragraph. [*This is a short note, marginalia style] It's a mistake to try to have unreliable features (pop-up footnotes) or too closely duplicate traditional paper layout. I know technical and academic stuff can need them, but they are not just a pain to create, but also to read. Breaks the flow even if a pop-up. |
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I would really prefer if people gave me advice for the show-stopping problem I am actually having and not advising me on how to format footnotes, because the alternative is trying to get information from Apple on what's going wrong and I don't look forward to that.
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The advice given is very good advice. I don't get why you won't heed it? |
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