From the course: InDesign to EPUB: Creating Ebooks

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Proof on an ereader device

Proof on an ereader device

- [Instructor] Before you upload your final ebook to some reseller for sale or hand it over to your client for them to do that, you must preview what it looks like on the device that your customers will be using. It's like creating something for print that without ever actually looking at it in a printout. I know that we've been doing rough proofing with ADE and with Thorium and with Books, but that does not match what it's like to see this EPUB appear on an iPhone or on a Samsung or on a Kindle, okay? So you need to get your hands on those devices or ask your client what device are you using? And they're going to say, oh, I have a NOOK reader. Oh, that's going to be just your luck. So you have to get your hands on a Nook reader somehow, build it into the cost of creating EPUBs create a little test bed of devices, and then figure out how to get your EPUBs onto those device to proof them so that you're not taken by surprise when…

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