5 Minute Lessons

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1 Standards and template
1.1 ePub standards 4
1.2 The template overview 6
1.3 Table of contents: a look back 12
2 Start a book
2.1 Title and table of contents 14
2.2 Copyright 21
2.3 Dedication 23
2.4 Foreword 24
2.5 Preface 26
2.6 Acknowledgement 28
2.7 A look at the table of contents 30
3 Chapter elements
3.1 Chapter 33
3.2 Styles 37
3.3 Other styles 40
3.4 Export your book 41
Standards and template
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ePub standards
Creating ePub books has been around for a few years. Creating these books is much easier now.
Pages takes care of a lot of the work, but there are some standards that in place for creating ebooks.
Apple has a support web page with instructions and a template you can use to get started. I will be
using this template during the course of this instruction.
This template is a great way to begin publishing ebooks. It emphasizes the different sections that are
found in a typical book. This template also serves as a template for teaching the different parts of a
book and how they all come together.
Apple's ePub standards page
Apple has a support page for ebooks. Use the link below to access this page.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4168
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A template for ePub books
Scroll down about half way through the page. Download the ePub Best Practices file.
Best practices file
Double click on the zip file to release the pages document. Double click the document to open the file in
Pages.
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The template overview
The best practices template has some sample pages. In this lesson we'll take an overview of the
template before we begin creating our first book.
The book cover
The first page is the book cover. It contains the book title and subtitle. It also has a picture.
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Table of contents
The second page is the table of contents. This table of contents lists the book chapters and chapter
headings.
The first page
The first page of the book in an introduction. You can see that the title of this page appears in the table
of contents.
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Page styles
The next page contains examples of paragraph styles. Paragraph styles are the key to creating a good
ebook. During the rest of these lessons we will be using these styles regularly. You can change the
style attributes but for now get used to how they work. Don't change anything. I will cover how to
change them later.
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Book sections
Click on the sections button and you will get a list of different book sections. I told you this would be a
great teaching tool.
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Styles drawer
On the file menu click View and then select Show Styles Drawer.
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Paragraph styles
You will be using the styles from the styles drawer to format the information in your book. We will be
using character styles to format individual words.
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Table of contents: a look back
Let's see what these styles do in the table of contents.
Back to the table of contents
Click once on the page with the table of contents.
Update the table of contents
To update the table of contents click once inside.
The chapter name now appears in the table of contents along with the page number of that chapter.
This is one of the benefits of using paragraph styles in your book.
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Start a book
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Title and table of contents
Let's dive in and get started on our first book.
Book title
Let's start with your book title. Change the title with that of your book and change the chapter subtitle.
You can remove the chapter subtitle if you do not have one.
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A new title
Here is my new book title.
Changing the picture
You will most likely want to change the picture if your story has nothing to do with a frog. You should be
storing all your pictures in iPhoto. This makes it easy to access them from any application.
In the right hand corner of pages click the Media icon. If you don't see the icon go to the menu and
select View then select Show Media Browser.
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Select a new image
Make sure the photos button is selected and browse through your collection of images. Do I need to
mention copyright? I didn't think so.
Find an image and drag it over the existing image and release.
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A new image
The existing image will be replaced with the new image.
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Author and edition
Replace the author information and the edition information. You don't need to have an edition.
A new author
Okay, let's move on.
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Let's clean things up
We don't need pages three and four. Click on page three and press the delete key on your
keyboard.You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete this page. Click the delete button. Repeat
this step for page four.
Careful don't delete the table of contents.
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Table of contents
The table of contents will still show that you have the other pages. It will automatically update if you
click on one of the items or if you save the document.
Don't concern yourself with this now it will all begin to make sense soon.
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Copyright
This is not a lesson on copyright but a lesson on your own copyright page. I am going in order so that I
cover all the teachable moments.
Insert copyright section
Make sure the table of contents page is selected in the page panel.
Click on the section icon and select Copyright. The copyright page will be inserted after the table of
contents.
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Copyright information
Edit the copyright information as needed. This is a great opportunity for students that are working in
groups to get their credit.
Remove the ISBN information.
Updated copyright
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Dedication
A dedication page is usually a page where the author pays special gratitude for those that make the
book possible. Make sure students place your name here prominently.
Dedication information
Change the dedication information as needed.
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Foreword
A foreword will tell about some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the story. It can also
talk about the writer of the story. The foreword can also talk about what a later edition will refer to in an
earlier edition.
Insert a foreword
To insert a forward go to the section icon and select foreword from the list.
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Foreword information
Change the information of this page is you plan to have a foreword. If you don't need a foreword click
on the page and press delete on your keyboard.
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Preface
A preface is usually written by the author and tells the story of how the book came into being or how the
idea for the book developed. This is a great place for your students to talk about the process they went
through in developing and collecting their information for the book.
Preface page
Click on the sections icon and select Preface from the list.
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Preface information
Change the preface information as needed.
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Acknowledgement
An acknowledgement page is where the author pays tribute to those that helped to produce and publish
a book. This process of book publication is a difficult one and it takes lots of people to make it happen.
This page acknowledges those people.
Acknowledgments
Click on the sections button and select acknowledgements from the list.
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An Acknowledgement
Fill in the information as needed and make sure to sign it with the student's name.
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A look at the table of contents
We have added several pages to our book by now. Let's pause and take a look at what is going on with
the table of contents.
First of all save your book. In the menu select File then Save As. Give your book a meaningful name.
Like the title of your book.
Table of contents
Click on the table of contents page. The table of contents needs to be updated. To update the table of
contents click on any of the items in the table of contents.
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Updated table of contents
Your table of contents should now be updated with the new pages we added.
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Chapter elements
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Chapter
Let's create our chapters. Chapters will have chapter names, numbers, headings, subheadings and
other elements. We will go through them is this chapter.
Chapter template
The chapter template has lots of preset text. You won't always need this text and it can be tedious to
always be removing unwanted elements and text. Let's add a chapter a different way that provides
more freedom.
Click on this page in the pages panel and delete.
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On the last page
Click once inside the last page. Make sure the cursor is blinking on the last line that is empty.
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Section break
In the menu select Insert then select Section Break.
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A blank page
A blank page will appear ready for your chapter title.
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Styles
In this lesson we will look at all the elements that can go into a chapter. Chapters rely heavily on
paragraph styles. These styles are important because they are used by the table of contents. The font,
size and style might not be to your liking but don't change them just yet.
Chapter numbers
On your new page type the chapter number. You don't need a chapter number. I'm using one here to
cover this option. By default pages uses the body style. It is highlighted on the left panel. For the
chapter number we need to give it the chapter number style.
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Chapter number style
Make sure the cursor is still on the line for the chapter name. Click once on the chapter number style.
Press the Return key.
Chapter name style
The style defaulted to body when you pressed the return key. Type the name of your chapter.
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Change chapter name style
After you type the name of your chapter click on the chapter name style.
Body style
Press the return key and begin your first paragraph. The style will return to body. This is the style you
should use for the body of work in the book.
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Other styles
Use the other styles as needed. Styles make it easy for you to format the ebook is a format that works
best on most ebook readers. I'm not going to use all the possible styles here. I'm going to leave it up to
you to try the rest as needed.
A heading for the table of contents
Within a chapter the heading style produces an entry in the table of contents. In this example I placed a
heading above the paragraph.
Headings in the table of contents
Looking back at the table of contents the heading style produces an entry along with a page number.
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Export your book
The final step when your book is finally done is to publish. In the 21st century we again have the
freedom to publish as we wish and see fit. The cave man did not have to deal with a publisher and
neither do we. Publish to obscurity to publish to prominance. The option is now within your reach.
Export
Click Share in the file menu and select Export.
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Export to ePub
Click on the ePub option. You can change the title of your book here if you need to do so. Enter your
name as the author as you want it to appear in the book. Select the genre of your book. Place a check
mark to use the first page as your book cover. Click the Next button.
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Save location
Select a location to save your ePub document and click the Export button. You can now share this
ebook with anyone with an ebook reader.
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