can you have hyper-links in an ebook?
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Yes but most of the dedicated ereaders don't work very well as web browsers. OK if your on an iPad.
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This. Kindle has an OK web browser built in (it's still in beta) but I'm not sure if it's triggered off links in books or not.
There are an awful lot of things you can theoretically do in epub ebooks if you're running the ebook reader on something more like a computer - like an iOS or Android device: animation, video, interactive buttons. An epub is at heart a simple web page file.
Which model of Kindle are you using? I have a Kindle 2 and I build my ebooks with links to my website which has all the books as web pages. I find that it's very slow to load a page. I only have whispernet and I live in the country and only have 1 bar. Also I find my web pages which have a 1-3-1 layout with the content in the middle don't display well. Be nice if they do add a good browser to the new models then I could promote my web sites in my books.
Nook and Nook color have web browsers...but they are wifi.
That's something you'll have to keep in mind with ebook hyperlinks:: Will people have access to wifi?
That's something you'll have to keep in mind with ebook hyperlinks:: Will people have access to wifi?
Also; you need to be able to do what's called "failing gracefully" in software design. That is, you don't want to leave your readers in limbo, with no easy and clear way to return from whence they came.
Hyperlinks in an ebook don't have to go to the web. They can be used to jump to chapters, to references, or to other end matter.
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What I thought about is to link in the text to web pages, but even simpler would be to store images as footnotes, so that if people read Westertoren and they wonder what it looks like, they can click the word and view a photograph, then hit the back button to resume reading. Also with a map of Amsterdam, so people can see the locations on a map. Shouldn't be too hard to realize in an e-book. With the images stored as footnotes in the digital book, you wouldn't need an internet connection to view the images.
What I'd like to see ebooks do with footnoting, I think, is use the little popup feature that's built into most readers to facilitate footnotes. You click the highlighted text, it pops up the little center-of-screen popup window with the footnote. You click the button there to close it and go back to reading. Would work well.
Mine is a book of interviews. What about, instead of including photos in the book, I had a link to each artist as their chapter came up in the text?
fyi, hyperlinks is just the function that you can click a text and be taken somewhere else. It doesn't necessarily mean somewhere on the Internet.
Sony Reader's LRF format allows for hyperlinks, but does not have Internet capabilities. You could create the feeling of the Internet by using hyperlinks in it. But that is all.
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