Bi-Directional hyperlinks for Kindle
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I have a book with over a hundred footnotes that I converted to endnotes in the print version using a script created by Peter Kahrel.
Now, Amazon requests bi-directional links to validate my ebook. And prefers using footnotes to enhance the reader experience.
The Kindle guidelines suggest the following html, but I don’t know where to put it!<p>This footnote example uses the aside element with the epub:type attribute and bi-directional hyperlinks.<sup>1</sup></p>
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<aside id=”ft-1-1″ epub:type=”footnote”>
<p>1. This is the footnote text, which should be placed at the end of the chapter or book.</p>
</aside>
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Gail,
Ohhh, I probably would have recommended using the footnotes feature built into InDesign. It builds in the cross referencing linking you need between the text reference and the footnote when exporting. Technically in an ebook all footnotes are more or less converted to endnotes anyway. You could use the cross-referencing feature within InDesign but it’s kind of tedious.
What the Kindle Guidelines is showing is what you would need to add to your HTML files if you were to unzip the epub after export, or building your ebook file in HTML. You cannot add this code to InDesign. The footnotes feature within InDesign is the closest I have found that gets close.
Aaron
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