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Index for My PDF Notes

1. Inserting PDF into iBooks....1.2. Disk Clean Utility.7.3. How to Make an ePub e-Book by Hand ... 14.

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2. Now open up iTunes. Select File -> Add to Library.

3. Navigate to the PDF file(s) you want to add to iBooks. You can select more than one

file, or select an entire folder. Once youve made your selection, clickChoose.

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4. Now select Books from your iTunes Library. You should see the PDF file(s) that you

just added, now listed.

5. Right-click (ctrl+click for single-button Mac folks) on the newly added PDF and

select Get Info.

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6. First select the Options tab. Make sure that the Media Kind: is set to Book.

7. Now select the Info tab. From here you can add any missing info the authors name,

the published year etc. When youre done, click

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8. Almost done. Now select your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone from the Devices list in

iTunes. Select the Books tab from the list at the top. Make sure that Sync Books is

checked. If you want to sync all of the books youve added to iTunes, select All Books

and then click the Sync button. If you want to only sync specific books, choose

Selected Books and then place a check next to each of the books you want to sync (andthen click the Sync button).

9. Now open iBooks. Youll see a PDFs Button at the top. Tap it.

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10. Youll be presented with a list of all the PDFs you added via iTunes. Tap one

of them.

11. and it will open in iBooks. At any point in time you can tap the screen and a

menu will appear at the top. From here you can change the displays brightness,

search the PDF, bookmark a page etc.

Thats it youre done!

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Disk Cleanup Utility

To keep a PC running smoothly, regular maintenance is critical. Many users shy away frommaintenance tasks, thinking it is a long, drawn out manual affair, but the Disk Cleanup Utility can

easily determine which files on a hard drive may no longer be needed and delete those files. Inaddition to freeing up potentially significant amounts of hard drive space, using Disk Cleanup ona regular basis can significantly improve system performance.

Starting Disk Cleanup

Disk Cleanup is available on both Home and Professional versions of XP. The utility can beaccessed in any of the methods listed below.

x ClickStart | Programs |Accessories | System Tools | Disk Cleanupx ClickStart | Run and in the Open box type cleanmgr and clickOKx In Windows Explorer or My Computer, right-click the disk in which you want to free up

space, clickProperties, click the General tab, and then clickDisk Cleanup.

Use the drop down menu arrow to select the drive you want to clean.

Click [OK] and Disk Cleanup will analyze the selected drive to determine the amount of spacethat can be freed.

Note: Be patient. Analyzing the drive can be a lengthy process depending on drive sizeand contents.

Once the drive analysis is complete a list of file categories will be presented for your selection.

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Instead of automatically proceeding with cleanup once the drive analysis is complete, DiskCleanup allows you to review the categories of files that can be deleted. Click on any of the

categories to display more information relative to that category in the Description section of thewindow. If you're unsure if you want to delete the files in a category from the description, usethe [View Files] button. A complete list of files scheduled for deletion will be displayed inWindows Explorer. Use drag and drop to move any files you want to save to a safe location andleave the category selected. If all the files are to be saved, close the window and then removethe checkmark from the file category so it will not be included in the disk cleanup. After all thecategories have been reviewed, click [OK] to begin the disk cleanup process.

File Categories in Disk Cleanup Utility

There are a number of different types of file categories that Disk Cleanup targets when itperforms the initial disk analysis. Depending on the individual system, you may or may not haveall the categories listed below. An excellent example of this would be Backup Files from a

Previous Operating System. If a clean install of XP was performed then this category will notexist. It pays to click on each of the categories and note that the [View Files] button can changedepending on the category selected.

x Downloaded Program Files

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These are ActiveX controls and Java applets downloaded from Web sites that are temporarilystored in the Downloaded Program Files folder. It's not program files or zip files that you havedownloaded from other locations.

x Temporary Internet Files

This refers to Internet Explorer's cache of Web pages that are stored on the hard drive forquicker viewing. None of your personal web settings are affected by selecting this category, nordoes it delete any cookie files.

x Recycle Bin

The main thing to be aware of in this category is that it only refers to the Recycle Bin for theselected hard drive or partition. This is important since XP uses an individual Recycle Bin for eachdrive and partition, not just one as is the case in some Windows versions.

x Temporary Remote Desktop Files

These files are the result of using the Remote Desktop utility. If you repeatedly use RemoteDesktop with the same computer or group of computers, leaving these files intact will maintainthe speed of future connections. Deleting them will necessitate downloading the remote systemsicons and wallpaper the next time a connection is established.

x Setup Log Files

These are really pretty useless unless you have a specific reason to go back and see whatoccurred during XP setup.

x Backup Files For Previous Operating System

I mentioned this category earlier as one you may not have, but if you did upgrade from aprevious Windows version and selected the option to be able to uninstall XP, it may well exist. Ittakes some major hard drive space to copy all the files necessary to back up a previous system'score files, drivers, etc. This entry can range anywhere from a few hundred megabytes up to agigabyte, so unless you are still considering dumping XP this is a good category to select.

x Offline Files

Users with slower dialup connections and those using laptops frequently make websites they useoften available offline. Depending on how many levels deep you save the sites, they can eat upgigabytes of hard drive space very quickly. Worse than taking up space, the sites often containoutdated information. A good candidate for deletion.

x Compress Old Files

Unlike the other categories, Compress Old Files doesn't delete any files from the drive. Itcompresses files that Windows hasn't accessed for a specified period of time. The files are stillavailable, but there will be a slight increase in access times because the files will bedecompressed the next time they are accessed. Note that when Compress Old Files is highlightedan Options button appears. Clicking it will allow you to set the number of days to wait before anunaccessed file is compressed.

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There may be other categories that appear in your Disk Cleanup window, but in all cases,highlighting the item will display an explanation of the category in the Description area.

More Options Tab

In addition to the categories that appear on the Disk Cleanup tab, the More Options tab offersadditional opportunities for freeing up hard drive real estate. There is nothing on this tab thatisn't available elsewhere within XP in stand alone fashion, but having them grouped here doesserve as a convenient reminder.

In Windows XP there are three choices available on the More Options tab: Windows Components,Installed Programs, and System Restore.

x Windows Components

The Cleanup button in the Windows Components section launches the Windows Components

Wizard. Select a general category of components and drill down using the Details button to locatethe desired Windows component.

x Installed Programs

The Cleanup button in the Installed Programs section opens the Add/Remove Programs dialogbox. Any installed program can be removed by selecting the individual program and clicking the

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Change/Remove button. You cannot batch programs together to be removed. Each removaloperation must be treated as a separate entity.

x System Restore

Clicking the Cleanup button in the System Restore section opens a dialog box where it asks if youare sure you want to delete all but the most recent restore point. The difference between usingthis option and going directly to System Restore is that you have no option to selectively deleterestore points with this method. It's "all but most recent" or nothing when accessed via DiskCleanup. Click Yes or No depending on your choice.

Post Disk Cleanup Procedures

Using Disk Cleanup will almost certainly rid your system of a substantial amount of unneededfiles. You could stop here and not suffer any ill consequences, but there are a lot of gaps andempty spaces on the hard drive where the files were removed. This would be an excellent time torun Disk Defragmenter to organize the hard drive into contiguous sections. The hard drive headswill spend less time seeking all the pieces of a file and you'll see another performance boost.

Additional Disk Cleanup links

x Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Filesx Disk Cleanup Utility Stops Respondingx How to Automate the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP

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How to Make an ePub e-Books by Hand

If you're interested, I figured out the information in this guide by a combination ofreverse engineering the Sherlock Holmes book from Adobe's site, readingthrough the specs at the IDPF web site, and trial and error until I got a workingeBook to load properly in Digital Editions

Since I originally posted this guide, the ePub standard has gone through a fewrevisions, making the hand made files I first created now throw out a bunch oferrors when ran through tools like ePubCheck. Since various websites now offerbooks in the ePub format, I'm not going to go through and update every singebook I've made, but I am going to re-do this guide from scratch.

Tools Needed:

A text editor. Anything that can edit text files, HTML, and XML. (Example:Notepad)

A .zip program. Anything that can create .zip files. (Example: WindowsXP's built-in .zip support)

Optional Tools:

You can make ePub files with just the programs that came with your operatingsystem, but here are some suggestions for tools that can make the processeasier.

Tools for cleaning up source documents:

Below are some tools for cleaning up the HTML/XHTML files often used forsources for ePub books. Cleaner source code will produce a better looking book.Most of the ePub readers right now only support basic tags and do strange andwonderful things when they see a tag they don't recognize. Whether you makean eBook by hand, or use a program to convert a text or HTML document to anePub file, the cleaner the HTML looks, the nicer the final book will look. Thefewer the tags in the source document, the better.

Tag Soup - cleans up HTML tags

Overview of the process of making an ePub eBook

The Process can be broken down into three parts:

1. Prepare the content2. Prepare the XML files3. Put in in the container.

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First, let's go check out the official specs. Yes, it's very boring and hard to follow,but aren't they all? These will come in handy later on though. After getting thebasic structure of the file setup, the official specs are handy to reference for tagsthat aren't used very often, or if you can't remember what exactly goes in acertain tag. Don't let them scare you though, we really only have to fiddle with

two XML files, the rest is either straight XHTML, or files that you can copy fromthe sample file that we'll be looking at later.

IDPF Specs:

(Allowed Mark-up reference for included XHTML files) Structure Container

1. Prepare the content

The first thing to do is prepare your content. Content will typically come in a .txtfile or an .html file, if you get it from a public source such as Project Gutenberg. Ifyou are turning your own work into an ePub eBook, it's probably in .doc oranother word processor format.

Content for ePub books needs to be in HTML format. It's out of the scope of thisguide to show how to create an HTML file. As a quick overview:

If your file is in .doc (MS Word) format, save it as HTML, then use a toolmentioned above to clean it up.

If your file is a text document, add the appropriate markup to make it XHTMLcompliant.

Another thing to note: If you are creating these files in a text editor, be sure tosave in UTF-8 format, not ANSI. (In notepad, this is an option under the "saveas" box.)

2. Prepare the XML files

The XML files are all the other stuff in the ePub book that tells where your

content is, and what to do with it.

Before we start preparing our own e-Book, lets look inside a sample file.

Download the sample file to your hard drive Rename the .epub extension to .zip Open the Zip file

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The root of the zip file The Meta-inf folder the OEBPS folder

A .epub file contains, at a bare minimum, the following files/folders:

mimetype - tells a reader/operating system what's in here META-INF folder - This folder contains, at minimum, the container.xml

file, which tells the reader software where in the zip file to find the book. OEBPS folder - Recommended location for the books content. It contains:

o

images folder - images go hereo Content.opf - XML file that lists what's in the zip fileo toc.ncx - This is the table of Contentso xhtml files - The book's contents are in theseo page-template.xpgt - This file isn't really needed, but it makes it

look pretty in Adobe Digital Editions

Feel free to extract these files and use them as a template...

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Lots of stuff in this file. I'll go through each required tag here. Check the specs tosee more information about optional meta data tags.

dc:title - Title of the bookdc:language - Identifies the language used in the book content. The content hasto comply with RFC 3066. List of language codes. (I'd just copy the language tagfrom the sample...)dc:identifier - This is the book's unique ID. This has to be a unique identifier forevery different e-book. The spec doesn't give any sort of recommendation forwhat to use, but an ISBN number would be a good bet. I used the name of myweb site and the date and time.One thing to note, because of how the file interacts with toc.ncx, just modify

what's after the " uuid:" on this line.

Next comes the manifest. This is just a listing of the files in the .epub container,and their file type.Each item is also assigned an item ID that's used in the spine section ofcontent.opf. This list does not have to be in any particular order. (But you'll behappier if it is.)

The spine section lists the reading order of the contents. The spine doesn't haveto list every file in the manifest, just the reading order. For example, if themanifest lists images, they do not have to be listed in the spine, and in fact, can't

be. Only content (i.e. the XHTML files) can be listed here.

- toc.ncxThis is the table of contents. This file controls what shows up in the left Table ofContents pane in Digital Editions

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Things you need to change:- Make sure the uid matches what you have in content.opf

- doctitle: The text inside the text tag is what will show up as the books title inthe reader software- The navpoint tag.Each nav point is a chapter listing, the text is the chapter name, and the src is thefile it links to.If you copy a navpoint tag set to add chapters, make sure to update the id andplayorder values.Notes:According to the spec, the ID can be anything you want, but it's easier to keeptrack of things if you use the same ID you used for that file in the .OPF file. Also,some readers won't properly display the Table of Contents if the ID doesn't

match.Also, the playorder values have to be in order. (An item with playorder 1 will bebefore an item with playorder 2, etc.) They also have to be listed in order, andcan't have any gaps. (You'll get an error if you jump from 1 to 20, etc)

- page-template.xpgtThis file isn't part of the IDPF spec, but Adobe Digital Editions uses it forformatting and setting column settings and whatnot. You don't need this file at all,

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If you want to cheat, download the file below. It's a zip file that has empty chapterpages, and the content and toc files pre filled out, so all you have to do is copyand paste your content into the empty files, and modify the OPF and NCX files.Blank Sample file

Checking your ePub file

So you've made a sample ePub book, and it won't open, or it opens with an error,or looks funky. What now?

epubcheck is a program that will scan your ePub file and display any errors itfinds in the book.You can download it here or go to threepress's website to have it scanned.