![]() Once I have exported an epub file from my Open Office original file, I open that file in Sigil (version 0.7.3) and rework the epub file as needed. When it’s time to produce an epub file I turn to the wonderful writer2epub extension that Luca Calcinai has written and released as an open source extension for Open Office. I use Apache Open Office Writer as my main writing platform. On both phone and iPad, the Dropbox client proved easy to use and similar in appearance. In this test exercise, the main benefit of Dropbox is the ease of accessing the epub file in my online Dropbox folder from a smart phone and an iPad. Dropbox is similar to ftp in the web development world, but more user friendly. This is a free online service letting users upload a file once and then access that file from multiple other locations and devices. ![]() I’m not expecting perfection, I just want to get an early first look at my epub file on mobile ereader apps, so I can fix any issues early on rather than finding something at the last minute.įor me, an unexpected benefit of testing my epub file like this turned out to be that simply reading my words on a different screen in a different layout revealed typos and errors that I had repeatedly glossed over on my main laptop.ĭropbox is a central part of this exercise. This is a pre-release exercise to evaluate how an epub file looks on mobile ereaders.What I saw in my testing and described below may not be exactly what you see on your devices, but it should be conceptually in the same ball park.When it comes to mobile devices, there are probably about 14,999 combinations of hardware, software, app version and OS versions. Evaluating an epub file on mobile devices Overall, I found this process quite reasonable. It turned out that I was able to upload and read my work in progress on both smart phone and iPad. I was interested in checking my work and making sure cover images, internal images, table of contents and fonts were reasonably behaving across a range of mobile devices. This led me to wonder about uploading and viewing my current work in progress on a smart phone (an old HTC Evo) and my iPad, as well as viewing it in a Firefox epub reader on my laptop browser. I stumbled across this article, Smartphones: The Next Home of the Ebook? here on The Book Designer site discussing the potential of smart phones as ereaders. In this article, Jeff Bach explains how we can view them before they’re ready to be published and why we might want to think about doing that. Evaluating an epub file on mobile devicesīy Jeff Bach ( of us don’t think about converting our books to ebooks until after they’re completed and ready for publication.
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