fxpar/interactive-epub-checker

Make great ebooks... with interactions for your students!

interactive epub checker

Epub are great educative tools. With this ebook you can test what your reading software accepts.

This ebook (epub) contains a lot of different interactive features.

• footnotes
  • simple footnotes
  • footnotes with images
• quiz:
  • hiding or displaying answer
  • checking if the answer is correct
  • click specific image areas
  • random question (todo)
• learning languages:
  • hiding or displaying translation
• Styles changes
  • text in lines
  • text in columns
  • vertical japanese
• formats
  • svg images
  • mathml
  • ruby pronunciation above characters

Download the epub to check some interactive contents on your reader.

Compatible readers (or partially compatible)

• Calibre viewer (windows) https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html Free, included in calibre, available as portable
• Lithium (android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faultexception.reader Free (pay ugrade available, for more themes), No ads.
• Study Comfort (android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studycomfort.app Free, No Ads
• (would be happy to have feedback from Apple users)
• Gitden (seems free and no ads) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gitden.epub.reader.app&hl=en works as tested by pleabargain and demonstrated in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qxd5m8HmgY&feature=youtu.be

Interactive Features

footnotes

• simple footnote
• with styling (bold, italic, underline)
• with image

footnote with quiz

• displays question
• indicates the correct answer

Quiz

Quizzes can be achieved through various coding design:

• inline script
• in Head script
• in Head link to Misc script.js

Forms: Button and Style

Forms: Fill the gap

Hide / Display

Mainly used here to hide translations in multilingual ebooks, of for learning languages purposes.

Various coding strategies can be used and are tested in this epub

• Jquery
• querySelectorAll
• InsertRule

Using javascript and css Styles

Click the button with language to see the text in this language appear / disappear.

Lines

Column

Using title attribute

• on desktop: mouseover the lines to see translation
• on mobile / tablet: longpress on lines to see translation

Click Image Zone

image map area

Layout, Font and characters Features

No fonts are included in this epub. This will allow to check which characters are correctly displayed.

svg

No library is included in the epub.

mathml

No library is included in this epub.

Compatible tools

• Calibre viewer (windows)
• Lea Reader (android)
• [Gitden] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gitden.epub.reader.app) (android)

vertical japanese

Including Furigana (small pronunciation hints aside Chinese characters)

Ruby

(for zhuyin Fuhao / bopomofo)

Compatibility Matrix

• kobo: aura HD (software version not updated)
• Kindle: PaperWhite (not updated for a long time)
• Sigil / PageEdit (very recent)

Feature	Calibre Viewer	Lithium	Sigil	kobo	Kindle	Gitden
Footnotes	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
Alerts	no	yes	no	no	no	yes
Hide text	yes	yes	no	no	no	yes
SVG	yes	yes	no	?	?	yes
mathml	yes	no	no	?	?	yes
jquery	yes	?	?	?	?	no

ROADMAP

• Hide with getElementsByClassName
• Hide with querySelectorAll
• Hide with cssRules
• Alerts
• Random quiz questions
• Vertical (table) hide translation
• Russian characters