Spine

The spine lists the core elements of the eBook in the reading order in which they appear in the final .lit file. This does not include out-of-spine content.

Typically, this lists the body file or a sequence of chapter files. Note that while Figure 6 shows the spine as a single file, it could just as easily be a sequence of 30 or 40 individual smaller files. If more than one file is listed in the spine, the .htm files are concatenated in the order presented. If chapter 10 is listed here before chapter 2, it will appear in that sequence in the final Reader format file as well. Images listed here are dumped in between the .htm files that are listed before and after them; the usual way to place images in an ebook is as <img src="picture.jpg" /> references from within the HTML, not in the spine.

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