Your device will ask you what program you’d like to open it in. How to use it: If you have Kobo installed on your iPhone/iPad, then easiest way to check your EPUB is to email the file to yourself, and then click on the file from your iOS device. Kobo is another common ebook reader, and it’s worth checking out how things look on it. How to use it: The easiest way to check your EPUB is to email the file to yourself, and then click on the file from your iOS device.

IBooks is Apple’s built-in ebook reading app. How to use it: Open Kindle Previewer, then File–>Open–>select your EPUB. Kindle Previewer converts your EPUB to Amazon format, and it also shows you what your files will look like on the SIX (!!) different Kindle platforms (Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle DX, Kindle iPad, Kindle iPhone, Kindle). How to use it: Browse for your file on your desktop, and select “Open With” –> ADE. Adobe’s rendering engine powers Kobo, Nook, and Sony, though none of them renders things exactly as ADE does. How to use it: click on an EPUB link in Firefox, it’ll open automatically in EPUBReader.ĪDE is Adobe’s free desktop EPUB reader, which will tell you roughly how different systems that use Adobe’s rendering engine will interpret your EPUBs. If things look OK in EPUB Reader, it’s a good sign that they should look OK elsewhere. When we test EPUB outputs at PressBooks, we usually go through the testing process in roughly this order, using these tools:Įpubreader is a Firefox addon, once it’s installed, you can click on an epub file link (for instance in the “export” page of PressBooks) and it’ll open in EPUB reader. If you want to know what your epubs will look like in the wild, I recommend the following tips and (free!) tools. The ugly non-secret of ebooks is that they look different on all different platforms.

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