I have some real basic questions about how to format an iBook.* Youll have to excuse my naivety. Ive never actually seen an iBook before, other than a few free public domain works I downloaded from the iTunes store for reference, and they look a LOT different than my finished product.* Im wondering why.* Maybe the answer is those books were made in a different program and iBooks Author doesnt do that.* Thats perfectly acceptable, but Id just like to know thats the answer as opposed to some formatting problem.
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Also, I am working with a plain plain simple text only book.* No photos or hyperlinks or interactivity.* Just plain words.* None of the help files seem to address my issues because they are all concerned with advanced topics like how to add 3-D images. I dont care about any of that.* Im stuck on super simple formatting issues.
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Ok, the first issue I have is that the free iBooks I downloaded all look like real paper.* You flip page by page and it even makes it look like you are physically flipping a page.* But in the iBook Im designing, all of the text for the chapter is in one long continuous scrolling textblock.* There dont seem to be any pages, just a long pile of paragraphs that you scroll through like a website.* So my first question is: how do I give my book pages that you flip through instead of one long section of text you scroll through?* Right now, instead having 200 individual, its more like 10 gigantic pages.
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The second issue has to do with chapters.* In the free iBooks I downloaded, when you get to the end of a chapter and you flip to the next page, it just flips you to the first page of the next chapter.* But for my book, the only way to get from one chapter to the next is to go back to the table of contents and click the next chapter.* So my second question is: how do you get the entire book to be more continuous so you can read it easily, as opposed to requiring the reader to keep going back to the table of contents?
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Third, what the heck is the difference between a Chapter and a Section* For the life of me I cant understand what the difference is or which one I should be using.* Right now my book is made up of 10 Sections each containing a chapter of the text.* Should I be using Chapters instead of Sections?* Is that why Im having these problems?* The Apple help is very very unclear about all of this.
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Finally, and this is more of an observation than anything else: Why isnt one of the templates just Plain Plain Text with Nothing Fancy?* Id imagine that most of the people using iBooks are novelists, not textbook writers.* Why isnt there a template for just a plain novel with no fancy photos or any of that stuff?* That would make it much easier to use, in my opinion.
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Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you can give.
PS, I don't know why all those asterisks have appeared in my post. I hate computers with the fury of 10,000 burning suns.
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Also, I am working with a plain plain simple text only book.* No photos or hyperlinks or interactivity.* Just plain words.* None of the help files seem to address my issues because they are all concerned with advanced topics like how to add 3-D images. I dont care about any of that.* Im stuck on super simple formatting issues.
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Ok, the first issue I have is that the free iBooks I downloaded all look like real paper.* You flip page by page and it even makes it look like you are physically flipping a page.* But in the iBook Im designing, all of the text for the chapter is in one long continuous scrolling textblock.* There dont seem to be any pages, just a long pile of paragraphs that you scroll through like a website.* So my first question is: how do I give my book pages that you flip through instead of one long section of text you scroll through?* Right now, instead having 200 individual, its more like 10 gigantic pages.
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The second issue has to do with chapters.* In the free iBooks I downloaded, when you get to the end of a chapter and you flip to the next page, it just flips you to the first page of the next chapter.* But for my book, the only way to get from one chapter to the next is to go back to the table of contents and click the next chapter.* So my second question is: how do you get the entire book to be more continuous so you can read it easily, as opposed to requiring the reader to keep going back to the table of contents?
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Third, what the heck is the difference between a Chapter and a Section* For the life of me I cant understand what the difference is or which one I should be using.* Right now my book is made up of 10 Sections each containing a chapter of the text.* Should I be using Chapters instead of Sections?* Is that why Im having these problems?* The Apple help is very very unclear about all of this.
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Finally, and this is more of an observation than anything else: Why isnt one of the templates just Plain Plain Text with Nothing Fancy?* Id imagine that most of the people using iBooks are novelists, not textbook writers.* Why isnt there a template for just a plain novel with no fancy photos or any of that stuff?* That would make it much easier to use, in my opinion.
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Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you can give.
PS, I don't know why all those asterisks have appeared in my post. I hate computers with the fury of 10,000 burning suns.
