{"id":10812,"date":"2015-03-12T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:20:13","slug":"how-to-proof-epubs-on-the-ipad-with-ibooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/how-to-proof-epubs-on-the-ipad-with-ibooks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Proof EPUBs on the iPad With iBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15425\">Michael E. Cohen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/15425\"><p>The unexpected demise of Book Proofer caused many book developers (a small but proud community of which I am a member) more than a little consternation. Without Book Proofer one has to go through the arduous process of editing an EPUB&rsquo;s files, packaging them all up inside an EPUB file, loading that EPUB into iBooks, reviewing the results, and then, if the results aren&rsquo;t as desired, deleting the book from iBooks, and engaging in another round of editing, packaging, and loading.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As if to add insult to injury, the iBooks app that ships with Yosemite ostensibly offers a way out with its Advanced &gt; Add ePub to Library as Proof command. (You must first enable the Advanced menu in iBooks &gt; Preferences &gt; Advanced.) Frustratingly, though, that command doesn&rsquo;t seem to work. Choose it, and you see a standard Mac file dialog in which EPUBs show up as unselectable!<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out that the command <em>does<\/em> work, just not with a normal EPUB file. Here&rsquo;s the trick &mdash; in four-part harmony &mdash; for making it work.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael E. Cohen: The unexpected demise of Book Proofer caused many book developers (a small but proud community of which I am a member) more than a little consternation. Without Book Proofer one has to go through the arduous process of editing an EPUB&rsquo;s files, packaging them all up inside an EPUB file, loading that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166,93,31,145,30,903],"class_list":["post-10812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ebooks","tag-ibooks","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10813,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions\/10813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}