Timeline for How can I put footnotes in an ebook?
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| May 8, 2019 at 22:30 | comment | added | John Haugeland | The next time you try to lodge an ebook on Amazon, you may be surprised to learn that they've buried their epub-alike (whose only job was to create a walled garden to kill kobo) deep in their system, and that literally every front facing path consumes nothing except PDF. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 22:29 | comment | added | John Haugeland | "Most ebooks are not PDFs. You can use a PDF on a Kindle, but it is a particularly unpleasant thing to do" Hi. According to CreateSpace, over 80% of Kindle books, including all of mine, are PDFs under the hood. You can't tell the difference, because they aren't represented as PDFs, but, if you get and set up an old iPad, it won't be able to render most of the books for this reason. "Kindle natively uses a special format that is not epub, but is very similar to epub" Respectfully, CreateSpace and KDP both say that format is little used, and recommend PDF. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 16:37 | comment | added | unkilbeeg | Most ebooks are not PDFs. You can use a PDF on a Kindle, but it is a particularly unpleasant thing to do -- most PDFs have pages too large so that rendering it on a Kindle forces you to read in a flyspeck font. Kindle natively uses a special format that is not epub, but is very similar to epub, and which can trivially be converted back and forth from epub. PDF is good for reading on computer screens. It's not very useful for dedicated ebook readers. | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 14:22 | comment | added | John Haugeland | Most eBooks are PDFs, and the photo shows a Kindle, which requests PDF. It almost certainly is, in fact, about PDF. | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 11:32 | comment | added | Quidam | It's not about PDF. | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 1:55 | history | answered | John Haugeland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |