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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this topic (so Mods, please move if there is a better location). I've been working on tweaking my eBooks and thought it might be useful to share information if anybody else is doing the same (or considering doing so). I saw the "Pimp my Aether" thread by @Snorkel, so I know at least somebody else does some eBook editing. I figured this thread could be a way to share tricks, code, css, etc. I am using Calibre's editor to make and edit my ePubs. So far, in the Cosmere, some of my projects have been: Created a "Cosmere Guide" (PM for details) that includes a Cosmere Index, suggested reading order and short Shardworld Summary so that I can give this to friends to help them decide if they want to read some/all of the Cosmere. Extracting Short Stories and novellas so they can reside in "Series Order" e.g. Extract Allomancer Jak Story to its own ePub so my Era 2 series order can file it as book 1.5 between Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self Fixing all of the annotations links in Warbreaker It annoyed me that the links, for example, end of Ch 1 had a link to "Annotations to Ch 1" but the link to return (to Ch 1) was at the start of the annotations - if you want to proceed to Ch 2 from the end of the Ch 1 annotations you had to go to the CH 2 annotation to select the "return to Ch 2" link. Now, I have it so each title links to the Table of Contents, the end of each chapter links the annotations for that chapter and the end of each annotation has two links, one to return to the beginning of the chapter you finished and one to continue to the start of the next chapter I created what I call "The Complete Mistborn Era 1" based on my Secret History Integration thread. What I did was: Merged the "Eleventh Metal" story into the "Mistborn Trilogy Omnibus" ePub and placed it first Extracted M:SH and placed the individual chapters where the referenced thread discusses they belong Further separated some sections from the SH chapters to place some scenes inside the appropriate original trilogy chapter (mostly in HoA - example below) The result is a single ePub that contains all of Eleventh Metal, TFE, WoA, HoA and SH - all in internal chronologic order (recommended only for re-reads, of course) Fixed the images in The Rithmatist to properly float left or right and scale on my e-reader (Kobo Forma) without overflow losing parts of images and adapting to landscape and portrait orientations Added the Deleted Scene to my copy of The Emperor's Soul Converted and fixed the word documents for White Sand (prose) and Aether of Night (as mentioned in linked thread above) into proper ePubs Example from my Secret History Integration: My current project is working on a Definitive version of Elantris. I'm integrating the "Hope of Elantris" short story into the 10th anniversary edition. Since it already had the Mad Prince scenes, I'm also adding the other deleted scenes, as well as the Elantris Glossary from the website. I'm considering trying to clean up the images in the "List of Aons" section so it displays better (possibly breaking each page-sized image into smaller images of each row - so that it reflows better with less clarity loss by shrinking such large images to fit - especially in Landscape). Also considering trying to add the Elantris Annotations (as they were in the Warbreaker eBook). Edit: I was able to break the images into groups of three so that they reflow correctly in both Portrait and Landscape on the device and don't end up so small you can't read the images. Also, in non-Cosmere land, I created an ePub of the Year of Dresden Microfiction (including the comic version of "Everything the Light Touches"), so I now have all of the prose Dresden Files (but not the Graphic Novels or the Audio-only) in eBook. Does anybody else tweak their personal copies of eBooks? What changes/tweaks have you made? Also, feel free to ask if you want to know how I made some of the changes.

So I've been taking a coding course recently and when I get code that I don't understand what's wrong with it, I naturally turned to the awesome people on the 17S Discord server. From there I was advised to start a thread on here. So after looking around, I didn't see a thread that was related to helping out with programming help. So I figured I would start this, and if people either need help or are willing to give it, they could (hopefully) come here. So that's pretty general, but hopefully it works out. Recently I've been trying to figure out jQuery, and to test it I have a bunch of checkboxes and radiobuttons. I'm trying to get it so that one is selected, the background turns a different color. I have the html and the css all set up, so I think it's a problem with the code. $('.left, .computers input').click(function(){$(this).parent('.input').toggleClass("formfocus");}); The code isn't inside a (document).ready, but it is inside a <script> element at the end of the <body>. So I was hoping some of you guys who are more experienced with jQuery could tell me what I did wrong. Debuggers haven't been able to help and the tags are all proper, so I'm pretty stuck right now.