Navigation in iBooks

I recently completed an illustrated biography of 152 pages in iBooks author.  Each page contains images and text and the text of each page refers to the images and must meet not in the neighboring pages.  I chose the blank Portrait model which provides a chapter, an article and a default Page.  I did not require a Section so I removed it leaving only chapter.  I added an image and several lines of text to the chapter page to act as the title of the book.

So, I inserted a default Page with ctrl/click on the chapter and I could see that it contains a linked text box.  By experience, I found that this limited my access to the page.  For example, the images become anchored at the edge of the text box and cannot be repositioned or resized and lines of text are moved to the new page to other pages.  I decided to remove the linked text box to give me complete control of the location of the images and text and to avoid that the text that flows from one page to another.  I continued to add pages without text boxes related one by one.

Version 2.4.1 iBooks author has a new feature to insert hyperlinks from any word in the text to navigate from the current page to a page in the book, number or an external Web page.  The feature is easy to use and I created an Index page placed immediately after the title page to navigate to all parts of the book.  I used the Index name to avoid confusion with the Table of contents provided by iBooks.

Despite professional IT experience of 40 years and another 15 years to do my own thing with OSX, I was unable to find a way to set up the Table of contents to do what I want.

Hyperlink navigation works perfectly on the iBooks on my iMac OSX version, but the IOS version of the iPad fails to distinguish the taps of your finger on the screen to run a link Hypertext and faucets to access the command bar or to turn the page forward or backward.

Respectfully, I suggest the finger taps to be reserved exclusively for hyperlinks and other actions must use the single finger swipe gestures - upward for the command bar access and on the side for turning the page.

I eased the problem in my book by increasing the size of the hyperlink words but that seems awkward and activation of the link remains intermittent which would be incomprehensible to readers of books.  Another problem is that the back of the page in iBooks facility does not work on pages without a linked text box.  I have included a message on my Index page to alert readers to ignore the back to home link and use my hyperlinks instead.  It also sounds too clunky for my taste.

I am reluctant to publish the book on the iBookstore in this condition, and I hope that the developers of iBooks will be able to address these issues in a future release.

Any comments would be welcome

Jeff

Jeff Reeves wrote:

I hope that the developers of iBooks will be able to address these issues in a future release.

Apple to see these comments, to post to

http://www.Apple.com/feedback

If you have not already done so.

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