Bookmarks in epub file...but not on Stanza..?

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 15:04 — Anonymous

I've been working on porting an epub file that was created by hand from an html version of a book into Stanza for iPhone/iPod.

I'm trying to figure out how to get the chapters to show up in Stanza as bookmarks.

In Digital Editions, whatever I list in my toc.ndx file shows up in the left navigation area as the "Table of Contents." But when I move the file into Stanza, there are no bookmarks.

I've unzipped a Feedbooks epub--their file does open up on iPhone with bookmarks in Stanza, and I think I have my opf and ncx files set up pretty much the same way...but still no bookmarks in mine.

(I don't see a way in Stanza desktop to add bookmarks that'll move with the book to the iPhone...but maybe I've missed something and that's the way to do it?)

Can you give me a clue about what I've been doing wrong? What part of the epub markup will set up the bookmarks in Stanza on iPhone?

Thanks...!!!

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 15:56 — Emily

Can you run your file through

Can you run your file through an ePub validity checker? Try this one:

http://bookworm.threepress.org/publishers/ebook-testing

It will tell you about any problems in the formatting of your epub file. If there are no errors in your epub file, but you still don't get the chapters in Stanza, would you mind sharing the file with us so we can see what might be happening?

Thanks!

Thu, 12/18/2008 - 17:30 — Anonymous (not verified)

figured it out--my error--bookmarks are appearing now

It was a simple typo in the opf--the epub is showing bookmarks in Stanza now.

The validator didn't flag that bad line in the opf, but it listed many other issues that I could fix--thank you very much for the link to it!!

Thu, 12/18/2008 - 22:20 — Emily

Great! I am glad that

Great! I am glad that helped.

Fri, 12/12/2008 - 15:06 — Anonymous (not verified)

sorry--should be toc.ncx

sorry--should be toc.ncx above--it's correctly named - just my typo.