![]() Because the size of these screens are so small, an ebook for a 150-page print book can have over a thousand “virtual” ebook pages (or as Kindle calls them, “locations”). Remember that an ebook has no pages? Well, it does have screens. eReader devices do not have an icon that takes the reader directly from the text to the index. Why should you use this note? Because eReader devices have an icon on the frame of the screen that when clicked takes the reader to the table of contents. In the example above, the index did not contain any main headings starting with Q. The guide letters you use should be the initial letters found in your index. Table of contents icon on your eReader to return to this note.Ī B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z To access these links while reading the text, use the Of the index, use the alphabet letter links below. (4) Place this note at the top of your Contents page Just know that if a heading or subheading is very long or contains a lot of big words, an eReader device may “wrap” it using a very odd-looking break in the word at the end of the line. Search tends to use single words or even fragments of words. One of the advantages of an index over an eReader device Search feature is that an index can use a phrase to express a concept or a name of a person, place or thing. Language is not as precise as the thought that underlies it. Sometimes this just isn’t possible though. (3) Keep headings simple and subheadings conciseīecause the font-size can be changed at will, and on some devices enlarged so big that only a single letter will appear on the device screen, you want to keep things as compact in the index as you can. You can never be able to know where the list of subheadings will start to flow over onto the next page. This means that the index you create for your ebook won’t be the same one your book’s readers may be seeing when they use it. Apple will use your default font, but both Kindle and epub books will allow the reader to change fonts and font-sizes at will. Nor do ebooks have a standard font-size.Įven if your ebook formatter specifies a default font for your index, Kindle will over-ride it. But here’s the rub - eBooks do not have pages. This way the reader will know what topic the run-over subheadings refer to. When this happens, indexers will repeat the heading at the top of the new page followed by the word, “continued” in italics. When a main heading has a lot of subheadings, sometimes the subheadings run over onto the next page. ![]() (2) Don’t bother with “continued” headings In addition, see Tip 3 below for what sometimes happens when eReader formatting creates word breaks for a long line in an index that “wraps” over to the line below. While print books can use a smaller-size font for the index in order to fit two or more columns on the page, an ebook index will use the same size font as the text. Your PDF for your ebook, like most print book manuscripts, should have around 250 words on a text page in 12 to 14 point type. A double-column index will not fit on the ebook screen. Even the Apple iPad screen page will be small when the user rotates the iPad sideways so that two pages will appear on the screen. This is because eReader devices have very small screens. If you are not familiar with what an ebook index looks like, please see my post on, “ How to Use an Ebook Index“. Ebook indexing is a brand new field with few practitioners.īecause of the technology involved, ebook indexing is not the same as print book indexing. Why? Because the indexer you hire to make an index for your ebook may not know them. Authors, these are five things you need to know.
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