02-18-2021, 07:09 AM | #1 |
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iBooks... text missing. Making me crazy!
I'm getting some really odd feedback from a client that we're developing a "slightly complex" eBook for (epub ver2). It's got some images in and some boxes, nothing funky, and all stuff we've done before.
But they keep saying that chunks of the content are MISSING when looking on iBooks (Mac). eg: One chapter has endorsements and they wanted to make sure that the name stays with the quote, so we wrapped it in the div with page-break-inside:avoid so... Code:
<div class = "group"> <p>Great book!</p> <p>- A reviewer</p> </div> <div class = "group"> <p>Changed my life!</p> <p>- Another reviewer</p </div> : etc CSS: .group{ page-break-inside:avoid; } Also, they say that other chunks are missing after forced page-breaks. Code:
<p>yadda yadda</> <div style='page-break-before:always;'></div> <p>start of new page</p> this has always worked... or at least degraded gracefullyand just not done a page-break. |
02-19-2021, 04:50 AM | #2 |
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Okay... so email from the client last night. Looks like we've gotten to the bottom of this.
Seems that they hadn't waited for iBooks to finish indexig the book before looking at it. I know that you sometimes can't turn to later pages while it's doing whatever it does when you first load a book, but also appears to affect bits partway through as well. So, ultimately not an issue. But not a brilliant customer expeience if you've bought the book. |
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02-22-2021, 03:46 PM | #3 |
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I remain puzzled as to why people even still use iBooks. Its never been up to snuff and is unlikely ever to be.
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02-22-2021, 04:01 PM | #4 |
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02-24-2021, 02:11 PM | #5 |
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02-25-2021, 11:58 AM | #6 |
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The types of people who frequent eBook forums like this one are probably more prone to want a customized reading experience. We tend to be picky about our eBooks and the reader apps that allow us to view them. But a lot of people are not like us. Eventually Apple added iBooks (now named Books) to the iOS and those who were not too picky basically used it out of convenience. It was there, it was free, it got the job done, but Apple never did much to make it compete with 3rd party apps.
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02-26-2021, 08:22 AM | #8 |
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iBooks/Books is terrible on an iPhone because of the silly wide margins. The Kindle app also has the same problem on an iPhone.
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02-26-2021, 10:54 AM | #9 | |
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@pwalker8, Apple always treated, and still does treat, iBook/Books as an after thought. Apple went all out with the Music services, but have shown little interest in ebook services. Thankfully other companies offered better services and bookstores. I will say that Books does work fairly well as a casual PDF reader and it is reasonably easy to open internet page PDFs in it via Share. So convenience is a plus even if feature sets are not. Last edited by OtinG; 02-26-2021 at 10:57 AM. |
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02-27-2021, 07:00 AM | #10 |
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03-02-2021, 02:51 PM | #11 |
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I don’t find Kindle app margins an issue on iPhone. It’s better than Books in this respect.
What I do appreciate about Books is that it has excellent Accessibility support, and it treats side-loaded books with respect - they are ‘full citizens’ as it were. |
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For myself, I find Books copes perfectly well with a moderately large library and with books obtained from several different stores - and the books are certainly not all best sellers. I do find it annoying that cover images do not sync from Books on a mac to Books on an iPhone - and I would like a greater choice of fonts. But for myself I am not really aware of other problems. Last edited by lxpose; 03-03-2021 at 05:36 AM. |
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